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What better way to start the school year than by having a university president hand you a check?
That’s what happened to four University of Louisville students working at United Parcel Service (UPS) Worldport on Monday night.
The students had been working nights at UPS, benefiting from tuition bonuses from the Metropolitan College program.
Nurse Theresa Klenk sees plenty of cases of heatstroke at the New Jersey hospital where she works.
But when her husband, a UPS driver, was admitted with symptoms incurred during a shift driving a brown delivery truck with no air conditioning, she decided to do something.
Klenk created a petition on change.org in July urging UPS to provide air conditioning in its trucks. It’s been signed more than 210,000 times.
But UPS is not planning to equip its vehicles.
FedEx Corp said on Friday it would not charge customers extra fees for most packages delivered to homes during the peak holiday shopping season, except packages that are oversized, unauthorized or require additional handling.
However, rival United Parcel Service Inc said last year it would raise surcharges for most residential packages for the 2018 peak season.
Next week students enrolled in Fulton County Schools (FCS) will begin the new school year. Unfortunately for homeless Atlanta teens trying to head back to school, purchasing even the most basic items can pose a challenge. Today, to help with this need, Kevin Warren, UPS’s new chief marketing officer and members of UPS’s African American Business Resource Group (AABRG), in partnership with the Ed Isakson YMCA, led an effort to create 500 hygiene kits packed with bars of soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, shampoo, lotions and combs.
The EEOC says a UPS Freight policy formalized in a collective bargaining agreement allows drivers with disabilities who are reassigned to non-driving work to earn 10 percent less than drivers reassigned for non-medical reasons, such as losing their license for legal reasons.
UPS says it has “robust” policies for accommodating people with disabilities, and the company plans to appeal.