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Human Rights Campaign Awards UPS Perfect Score On Corporate Equality Index

UPS Named A 2017 Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality

UPS (NYSE:UPS) has earned a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index, an annual survey that rates U.S. corporations on their non-discrimination policies and practices toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees and consumers.

UPS is the only company in the Mail and Freight Delivery category to achieve a perfect score and is recognized as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.

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UPS Survey: Get More Clicks From High-Tech Shoppers This Holiday Season

High-tech purchasers influenced by reviews and ratings, look to multiple sources and channels to influence purchasing decisions

With high-tech purchases expected to account for a major portion of consumer holiday spending this year, UPS has launched a 2016 UPS How to Click with High-Tech Online Shoppers study to help retailers gain insights into how to win with high-tech shoppers. According to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), 68 percent of consumers – roughly 170 million people – plan to purchase technology gifts this holiday season.

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Hoffa’s Numbered Days – Jacobin

For UPS, the largest Teamster employer in the United States, Hoffa has been the gift that keeps on giving. John Schultz, a reporter for Traffic World, one of the freight industry’s leading publications, wrote an article in May 2000 called “In Love with Hoffa”:

United Parcel Service, the nation’s largest transportation company, feels that it has taken part in one of the great trades of all time in labor: James P. “Jimmy” Hoffa for Ron Carey as president of the Teamsters union.

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The UPS Store Helps Eliminate Stress from the Holiday To-Do List

Packing, Shipping and Receiving Gifts is Easier than Ever

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and The UPS Store is on a mission to keep the holidays merry and bright by giving consumers a few less things to worry about. Whether it’s tapping into The UPS Store® Certified Packing Experts® know-how or routing gifts to a secure pick-up location, the company’s more than 4,500 locations are prepared to make your holiday gift-giving and receiving a little easier.

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UPS air mechanics file complaint of unsafe working conditions – Louisville Business First

A union group representing airline mechanics has filed a legal complaint against United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) for allegedly failing to protect workers’ safety on the job.

A complaint, filed Nov. 23 in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Kentucky, calls for UPS to immediately halt the use of more than 100 lifts, which are used by workers to reach the mechanical components of the aircraft.

The lifts rise as much as 25 feet off the ground. The union, Teamsters Local 2727, said in a news release that it repeatedly has raised concerns about malfunctioning lifts and truck booms that have dropped workers on multiple occasions. Earlier this month, according to the union, a 19-foot lift collapsed while a member of Local 2727 was working on the left wing of a plane.