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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 11, 2023 9:35:41 GMT -5
Full-time UPS drivers will earn $170,000 a year, on average, in new contract, CEO says USA TODAY OLIVIA EVANS AND DOC LOUALLEN, USA TODAY August 10, 2023 at 8:10 PM Full-time UPS drivers will earn an average of $170,000 in annual pay and benefits at the end of a five-year contract agreement, UPS CEO Carol Tomé said during an earnings call Tuesday. The salary ranges for full-time and part-time drivers were among the details to come out this week as the Teamsters union begins the process of ratifying the tentative agreement that emerged last month as a strike appeared imminent. "When you look at total compensation, by the end of the new contract, the average UPS full-time driver will make about $170,000 annually in pay and benefits," Tomé said. "And for all part-time union employees that are already working at UPS, by the end of this contract, they will be making at least $25.75 per hour while receiving full health care and pension benefits." The Teamsters authorized a strike if a new contract agreement couldn't be reached. Voting on the proposed contract began last week and will continue until August 22nd. Working conditions for workers are expected to improve as UPS and Teamsters reached an agreement on air conditioning measures, "including air conditioning and every new U.S. package car starting in January 2024." Workers will also get Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday for the first time in company history thanks to the new tentative contract. www.aol.com/full-time-ups-drivers-earn-001033190.htmlI wonder how many full time drivers they have because one of the UPS because I heard one spokesman for UPS say that 60% of drivers are part time |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 11, 2023 15:46:42 GMT -5
When UPS opened on Commercial Drive I was a teamster and interviewed and was hired. I took the physical and was to report to work the following Monday. I got a call that they had filled the position with someone else. Turns out it was the Teamster business agents nephew that got the job and I had paid teamster dues for two or three years while the business agents nephew had to pay to join the union. Local 182 was the next thing to mafia at the time. Rock DePerno was president at the time and if you didn't work for Coca Cola or Wonder Bread your dues bought you NOTHING.
Had I gotten on with UPS in the 70s I would be sitting back with a fatter pension than I get for my civil service pension.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 11, 2023 15:55:35 GMT -5
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Post by clarencebunsen on Aug 11, 2023 21:35:58 GMT -5
One of my sisters-in-law worked for UPS for most of her career. She started here locally and each time her husband was transferred (he was in the Marines) they found her a job in the new location. His last duty station was in Northern VA just outside of DC. By that time she was a facility manager. She didn't like the DC are. Most other places UPS drivers consider it a career. In DC it is just a temporary gig until they can get a federal job.
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Post by Clipper on Aug 12, 2023 7:07:03 GMT -5
It is a great place to work for the most part but the delivery drivers deserve every penny they make. In this area many routes require delivering two truck loads of packages in a day, requiring either returning to the hub to reload, or in some cases here they pull a double axle cargo trailer to the area of their route and reload out of the trailer. We had a friend that drove for UPS. His route was in the Kingsport area. He started work at 7am and often didn't get back to the terminal until 7 or 8 pm. Some drivers who's routes are in the coal fields and mountains of SW Virginia may drive 30 or 40 miles to get to the area they cover, and the routes may include more than one coal field mountain town plus deliveries to some remote locations on the hundreds of miles of mountain roads. After working those long hours for many years, they finally re-aligned and split some of the longer routes including our friend Mike's. Mike died of cancer 3 months short of the date he intended to retire. Thank goodness he had the time in for his wife to draw on his teamster pension.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 12, 2023 10:15:59 GMT -5
Coal mines are still open and operating? Not good....
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Post by clarencebunsen on Aug 12, 2023 12:25:41 GMT -5
Coal mines are still open and operating? Not good.... Almost 20% of US electricity is generated by coal. The most modern coal fired plants are almost as clean as gas fired plants. Approximately 1/3 of the electricity generated by a modern coal plant is used to clean the stack gasses before releasing them to the atmosphere. (I am posting numbers from memory so they may be a little off.) |
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Post by BHU on Aug 12, 2023 14:47:27 GMT -5
When UPS opened on Commercial Drive I was a teamster and interviewed and was hired. I took the physical and was to report to work the following Monday. I got a call that they had filled the position with someone else. Turns out it was the Teamster business agents nephew that got the job and I had paid teamster dues for two or three years while the business agents nephew had to pay to join the union. Local 182 was the next thing to mafia at the time. Rock DePerno was president at the time and if you didn't work for Coca Cola or Wonder Bread your dues bought you NOTHING. Had I gotten on with UPS in the 70s I would be sitting back with a fatter pension than I get for my civil service pension. You're right about RD & the local Teamsters. And if you're last name didn't end in a vowel you were also screwed. A lot of employees who bought shares in UPS & held onto them made a fortune when the company bought back their stock & they went public. Some ended up millionaires. |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 12, 2023 17:10:39 GMT -5
There was a man named Ned something that hired me and he apologized for having to notify me that I did not get the job. He was getting his marching orders from above with the influence coming from Rutger Park I am sure. Twice I was working for a company that was in contract negotiations with us drivers. I was working for Curtis Moving and Storage as a truck driver when I first came home from the service. Me and another driver stopped at the Golden Teapot after work for a drink and found the owner of the company cozied up with our business agent who wanted us to settle the next day. We had a grievance with the company holding up our checks. The next day we blocked the driveways with our trucks and wouldn't move them until the boss went to the bank and paid us in cash.
Next Local 182 adventure was when I was part time at Central NY Coach Lines. I told the guys not to go with the teamsters and to go with United Transit Workers but they got sucked into the teamsters with a contract that read like a comic book. A year later when the 1 yr contract was up for renewal we ended up walking around a burn barrel in the rain. Our business agent arranged for us to get a burger and a beer when we came off the picket line each day at the bar across the street from the office. A week later we were all out of work and management closed the doors and instead of running the Syracuse and Little Falls runs and charters, he elected to lease the buses to Utica Rome and a couple other companies and shut down daily operations. Our business agent brought us stale donuts and coffee one evening, and umbrellas after we were already half drowned in a rain storm, while his fat ass sat warm and dry in his black Lincoln Town Car.
The only break they ever gave me was one year I was looking for extra money for Christmas gifts. I drove a tractor trailer two nights a week for Associated Linen. I left at 6pm and took clean linen to Syracuse brought back dirty linen, left again at 9 for Oneonta, dropped the clean, picked up the dirty and was back in Utica and done around midnight. I took home up an extra $175 a week, which as a decent union wage at the time.
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