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A UPS employee in Raleigh says he was fired in retaliation after admonishing his supervisor for making a racially insensitive remark.
Joshua Boyd, 22, said Friday that he had worked only three weeks at the UPS Customer Center, loading boxes onto trucks, when the encounter with his boss happened Tuesday.
He said the supervisor, who is white, immediately apologized. But Boyd said the supervisor laughed about the chokehold joke two more times to other employees.
You may have a good relationship with your UPS driver, but how much do you really know about his or her job? The brown-clad United Parcel Service workers deliver more than 15 million packages a day to more than 220 countries and territories around the world; they even deliver to the North Pole. But what’s it really like to be a UPS driver? Here are some little-known facts from drivers who did their time.
You could say that UPS worker Sisha Perea was in the right place at the right time.
“I feel like I did what a normal person, a normal human being should do,” she says.
But when she took action to save the life of 84-year-old Marvin Bronson during a delivery, Marvin’s son will tell you it was much more than luck.
As Americans’ online purchases ramp up to new records, authorities say that the arrest of two teens in Macomb Township for stealing packages from doorsteps is the tip of a growing criminal iceberg.
The brazen pair were caught by police shortly after one was caught on a resident’s camera phone, dashing from a porch cradling a big Macy’s box.
The teens had cruised through a subdivision right in the path of a United Parcel Service delivery truck, stealing from one house after another, Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said.
When Peggy Young’s pregnancy discrimination claim against United Parcel Service comes before the Supreme Court Wednesday, the potential implications will be greater for the court itself than for Young or UPS.
Several cases involving gender discrimination and reproductive rights have hit a 5-4 roadblock at the conservative-leaning court under Chief Justice John Roberts. Now groups representing women, workers, employers and others are watching to see how the justices handle the company’s refusal to reassign Young to light duty during her pregnancy.
After last June’s ruling that Hobby Lobby and other employers with religious objections could deny their employees health insurance coverage for contraceptives, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went so far as to suggest her male colleagues had a “blind spot” on the issue.