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Teamsters union keeps 240,000 UPS workers on the job as contract expires
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<blockquote data-quote="ATAT1917" data-source="post: 3667603" data-attributes="member: 73787"><p><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/02/upss-a02.html#pk_campaign=sidebar&pk_kwd=mostread" target="_blank">Teamsters union keeps 240,000 UPS workers on the job as contract expires</a></p><p></p><p>" The proposed agreement includes:</p><p></p><p>* The creation of a new “hybrid” class of “22.4” driver/warehouse workers, who will be paid far less than current drivers and are not guaranteed full-time hours. The new position, which the Teamsters union boasted arose from its own proposal, is designed to destroy the last remaining decent-paying full-time jobs at the company and extend part-time “flexibility” from the warehouses to the delivery drivers.</p><p></p><p>* Maintaining permanently low wages for part-time workers who make up more than two-thirds of the UPS workforce. The union boasts that part-time workers’ wages will reach $15.50—itself a poverty-level wage—by 2023.</p><p></p><p>* No limits on forcing drivers to work overtime for up to 70 hours per week during peak season.</p><p></p><p>* No change to the dangerous working conditions caused by endless corporate speed-up demands.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATAT1917, post: 3667603, member: 73787"] [URL='https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/02/upss-a02.html#pk_campaign=sidebar&pk_kwd=mostread']Teamsters union keeps 240,000 UPS workers on the job as contract expires[/URL] " The proposed agreement includes: * The creation of a new “hybrid” class of “22.4” driver/warehouse workers, who will be paid far less than current drivers and are not guaranteed full-time hours. The new position, which the Teamsters union boasted arose from its own proposal, is designed to destroy the last remaining decent-paying full-time jobs at the company and extend part-time “flexibility” from the warehouses to the delivery drivers. * Maintaining permanently low wages for part-time workers who make up more than two-thirds of the UPS workforce. The union boasts that part-time workers’ wages will reach $15.50—itself a poverty-level wage—by 2023. * No limits on forcing drivers to work overtime for up to 70 hours per week during peak season. * No change to the dangerous working conditions caused by endless corporate speed-up demands. [/QUOTE]
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