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UPS Boosts Saturday Operations To Increase E-Commerce Delivery Speed

New Saturday ground pickups allow many businesses to have packages delivered to their customers on Monday, one business day earlier than before

  • With #UPSsaturday delivery, residential and commercial recipients can get ground packages that would previously arrive on Monday on Saturday
  • Expands to 15 additional major metro areas in April, with plans for rapid advancement to nearly 4,700 U.S. cities and towns by the holiday shipping season
  • UPS’s operating capacity increased with no additional investment in buildings, vehicles or trucks
  • More than 6,000 new UPS jobs expected when fully implemented
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Logistics’ Two Fronts – Jacobin

Amazon and UPS are behemoths. Socialists can shake the foundations of the US economy by agitating and organizing at both.

The modern economy revolves around the sprawling logistics industry. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than the current situation at Amazon and UPS. If Amazon makes good on its recent pledge, it will add another 100,000 workers to its US workforce by 2018, making it one of the country’s largest — and one of the largest nonunion — employers.

The US labor movement faces several existential threats right now, but Amazon’s is a special kind. The company’s breakneck expansion has revolutionized the logistics industry. Its impact is most deeply felt at United Parcel Service (UPS), the country’s largest private-sector, unionized employer, with nearly 250,000 of its workers represented by the Teamsters.

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The UPS Foundation Commits $14.1 Million To Humanitarian Relief & Community Safety

Investing in the Enhancement of Humanitarian and Public Health Supply Chains in Africa and Around the World

From imbedding its logistics experts with the United Nation’s agencies to vaccine tracking programs to drones delivering medical supplies, The UPS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UPS, is taking on global humanitarian relief and community safety in a big way. This year, The UPS Foundation will award $14.1 million in grant funding and in-kind support to advance humanitarian relief and community safety initiatives around the world.

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Disney, UPS employees win ruling against Teamsters – Orlando Sentinel

Eight Walt Disney World and United Parcel Service employees have won a National Labor Relations Board case against a local Teamsters union that they said obstructed their attempts to drop their memberships.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which represented four Disney workers, announced the ruling Monday. Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas issued the ruling last week.

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UPS will add more than 1,000 jobs at new Arlington distribution center – Dallas News

A new United Parcel Service shipping center in Arlington is expected to add more than 1,000 jobs to the booming North Texas market.

The package shipping company has leased 1 million square feet of distribution space in a new building in south Arlington.