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UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) employees who are members of Teamsters Union Local 243 in Detroit ratified their local rider to the national, or “master” UPS contract on Sunday, April 28, allowing the five-year contract to take effect.

The ratification process was unusual in that more than half of all voting Teamsters rejected the master contract. However, under the Teamsters constitution, a contract is considered ratified if less than half of the eligible voters cast ballots and less than two-thirds of those who voted cast ballots. About 44 percent of eligible UPS Teamsters voted, and the margin of defeat fell quite short of a two-thirds rejection.

Perhaps the most controversial language in the master contract establishes a two-tier wage structures for workers not on the standard Monday-through-Friday pick-up and delivery schedule.

An alert UPS delivery driver helped police nab a Vermont man who police say burglarized a West Lebanon home in the middle of the day last week.

The driver was making deliveries in a neighborhood off Seminary Hill when he told police he spotted the man acting suspiciously, walking around the neighborhood and approaching homes about 3 p.m. Friday, police said.

United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have finalized the last remaining agreement to cover more than 240,000 small package union workers.

The 5-year contract, which runs retroactive to Aug. 1, 2018 through July 31, 2023, became official Monday after Michigan workers ratified the last outstanding supplemental agreement.

The national contract increases wages, protects benefits and creates 5,000 new full-time jobs during the term of the agreement, according to the Teamsters.