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Another Stir of the Pot
Teamsters UPS and UPS Freight National Negotiating Committees put UPS on notice today that members demand fair contracts! They delivered boxes of petitions with more than 55,000 signatures to company negotiators at the bargaining table, sending a strong message that Teamsters are united.
Too True
Guess Who ?
UPS has the hottest chick in the game driving its trucks. Beyoncé is not taking up a new job, but she did make a special delivery for her fans on Instagram. B posed for an impromptu photo shoot behind the wheel of a UPS truck in New York City, sporting a striped jumpsuit and curly hair. She is gearing up for her “Mrs. Carter Show World Tour,” which kicks off in Belgrade, Serbia, on April 15.
Feels Like Home
UPS vs My Driveway
I like a company that keeps track of your orders. When I had bookmarks made for my new Barringer’s Pass series, Earthly Charms told me when it shipped – Monday – and when it would be delivered – today. UPS seemed to be running late, as it hadn’t arrived by late afternoon. Then I got an email from the company – did I receive my bookmarks? UPS said they couldn’t get all the way up my driveway and left it by a tree half way to the house. They wondered if perhaps deep snow made the driveway impassable.
I hopped in the truck to check it out – sure enough, there were two parcels wrapped in plastic and propped up by a tree. The other package was the edits from NY on my next book. If it really had been snowing, I might never have found them.
In fifteen years of living here, this is the first time a delivery didn’t make it to the house. This is the treacherous driveway he couldn’t handle. The package is at the base of the tree on the right.
A previous UPS driver had told me that company policy says they’re supposed to park on the road and walk up to the house. Obviously, if he did that in my neighborhood where most houses are far off the road, he’d never get done. But that was the rule – walk it up to the house.
I went to UPS.com and used every character permitted to me to explain my dissatisfaction with their service. They’re supposed to answer within twenty-four hours.
Dirt Road Diaries
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Strength in Numbers………Get Involved
UPS, UPS Freight Teamsters Rally Across the Nation for a Fair Contract
Thousands of UPS and UPS Freight Teamsters rallied for strong contracts at events across the nation on February 16 and 17. At rallies in Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Toledo, General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall and members of the National Negotiating Committee mobilized members for contract negotiations. More rallies were held across the East Coast this weekend in a continued show of Teamster force for negotiations in the largest collective bargaining agreement in North America. General President Jim Hoffa, Hall and members of the National Negotiating Committee also led rallies in Boston on Friday, February 22; Newark, Philadelphia and Baltimore on Saturday, February 23; and Atlanta, Orlando and Tampa on Sunday, February 24.
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Odessa Woman Wins $600,000 Verdict In Sex Discrimination Case Against UPS
Midland attorneys Holly Williams, Brian Carney secure win for former delivery driver MIDLAND, Texas, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – A federal court jury in Midland, Texas, has awarded a $600,000 verdict against United Parcel Service (UPS) in a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by a former driver for the package-delivery giant. The verdict represents the culmination of a four-year legal battle between Odessa resident Amber Ibarra and Atlanta-based UPS (NYSE:UPS). The company fired Ms. Ibarra in 2009 after she was involved in an on-the-job single-vehicle accident, although she argued that the accident was simply an excuse, and that she actually was fired because she is a woman. The jury agreed, awarding a six-figure verdict against UPS. “We always felt that if we could get a jury of Amber’s peers to hear this case, to hear what happened to her, and how she was treated, we would be fine,” says Midland attorney Holly Williams of the Williams Law Firm, P.C., who represented Ms. Ibarra at trial along with attorney Brian Carney. “The jurors agreed with us that women should be treated equally in the workplace, and I believe they intended to send a message with their verdict.” In the 2009 accident, Ms. Ibarra was driving a UPS truck when it hopped a curb and hit a telephone pole, causing no injuries. Trial witnesses testified that several male UPS drivers from the same facility in Odessa were allowed to keep their jobs despite being in far worse accidents, including two accidents involving fatalities and others involving serious injuries. Trial testimony also showed that UPS managers gave Ms. Ibarra more packages to deliver than her male counterparts, including one incident when a manager set aside six 100-pound packages for Ms. Ibarra to deliver between 9:30 and 10 p.m. even though she was pregnant at the time. Jurors also heard how Ms. Ibarra and other women at the Odessa facility were subjected to a pattern of repeated insults and harassment based on their gender, including testimony that male managers did not want women working at UPS based on their perception that women were weaker and slower and because they had menstrual periods.
Williams Law Firm, P.C.