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<blockquote data-quote="Brother Joe" data-source="post: 968248" data-attributes="member: 41239"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><strong>Volume Up, Time to Demand More Driving Jobs</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Profits aren’t the only things that are going up at UPS. The company predicts domestic volume will grow two to three percent in 2012. That’s two or three times the volume growth last year.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Excessive overtime and production harassment are already at all-time highs. Will growing volume mean more jobs—or just more production harassment?</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">President Hoffa and hall, our union’s Secretary-Treasurer and Package Division Director, told a conference call of UPS stewards in October that the company has agreed to review its dispatches and hire more drivers to match the number of drivers employed when volume was previously at this level.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">It’s time for Hoffa and Hall to back up this talk with action.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Teamsters in TDU’s <em>Make UPS Deliver</em> network are working together to hold Hoffa and Hall to their promises and to demand that UPS hire more drivers to handle growing volume.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><strong>UPS Profits Top $4.3 Billion</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">UPS executives report the company hauled in more than $4.3 billion in profits after taxes in 2011.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">UPS’s profits for the Fourth Quarter were $1.25 billion. These figures do not include a $527 million surcharge because of an accounting change in the way UPS tracks its pension expenses.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Including the accounting change, UPS made $725 million in the fourth quarter and $3.8 billion for the year.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">UPS predicts that profits will grow 9 to 15 percent this year. That could bring profits this year close to $5 billion.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><strong>Fighting for Full-Time 22.3 Job Creation</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Membership action has started to pay off. After stonewalling, the IBT and UPS finally started settling grievances and creating <em>some</em> 22.3 jobs in some locals.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">But the IBT still can’t say how many Article 22.3 jobs are filled nationally—and how many UPS still has to create to be in compliance with the contract.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">We need to make sure that UPS fills and maintains every single one of the 20,000 full-time 22.3 jobs it owes Teamster members under the contract.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Teamsters for a Democratic Union has successfully helped UPS Teamsters across the country to win full-time 22.3 in their locals. Want help winning 22.3 jobs in your local? <u><strong>Click here to send a message to TDU</strong></u> and we’ll get in touch with you about next steps.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><em>MakeUPSDeliver.org</em> is independent of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, does not reflect its views and is often critical of its policies. The <em>Make UPS Deliver</em> network works jointly with Teamsters for a Democratic Union, our union's national rank-and-file reform movement.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brother Joe, post: 968248, member: 41239"] [CENTER][FONT=times new roman][B]Volume Up, Time to Demand More Driving Jobs[/B][/FONT][/CENTER] [LEFT][FONT=times new roman]Profits aren’t the only things that are going up at UPS. The company predicts domestic volume will grow two to three percent in 2012. That’s two or three times the volume growth last year.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]Excessive overtime and production harassment are already at all-time highs. Will growing volume mean more jobs—or just more production harassment?[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]President Hoffa and hall, our union’s Secretary-Treasurer and Package Division Director, told a conference call of UPS stewards in October that the company has agreed to review its dispatches and hire more drivers to match the number of drivers employed when volume was previously at this level.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]It’s time for Hoffa and Hall to back up this talk with action.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]Teamsters in TDU’s [I]Make UPS Deliver[/I] network are working together to hold Hoffa and Hall to their promises and to demand that UPS hire more drivers to handle growing volume.[/FONT] [/LEFT] [FONT=times new roman][B]UPS Profits Top $4.3 Billion[/B][/FONT] [LEFT] [FONT=times new roman]UPS executives report the company hauled in more than $4.3 billion in profits after taxes in 2011.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]UPS’s profits for the Fourth Quarter were $1.25 billion. These figures do not include a $527 million surcharge because of an accounting change in the way UPS tracks its pension expenses.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]Including the accounting change, UPS made $725 million in the fourth quarter and $3.8 billion for the year.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]UPS predicts that profits will grow 9 to 15 percent this year. That could bring profits this year close to $5 billion.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman][B]Fighting for Full-Time 22.3 Job Creation[/B][/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]Membership action has started to pay off. After stonewalling, the IBT and UPS finally started settling grievances and creating [I]some[/I] 22.3 jobs in some locals.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]But the IBT still can’t say how many Article 22.3 jobs are filled nationally—and how many UPS still has to create to be in compliance with the contract.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]We need to make sure that UPS fills and maintains every single one of the 20,000 full-time 22.3 jobs it owes Teamster members under the contract.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]Teamsters for a Democratic Union has successfully helped UPS Teamsters across the country to win full-time 22.3 in their locals. Want help winning 22.3 jobs in your local? [U][B]Click here to send a message to TDU[/B][/U] and we’ll get in touch with you about next steps.[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman][I]MakeUPSDeliver.org[/I] is independent of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, does not reflect its views and is often critical of its policies. The [I]Make UPS Deliver[/I] network works jointly with Teamsters for a Democratic Union, our union's national rank-and-file reform movement.[/FONT] [/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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