Package Worker

News Updates

Press Release
March 5 -

UPS Freight workers in LaCrosse, Wis., unanimously voted to ratify their first-ever contract as Teamsters. The Teamsters now represent nearly all of the 12,600 UPS Freight drivers and dockworkers eligible to join the union.

Headline News
March 4 -

The Teamsters Union won a major victory on seniority this week at the UPS Freight national grievance panel, and is taking important steps to address contract violations on subcontracting, announced Ken Hall, Package Division Director and International Vice President.

Headline News
March 4 -

Thanks to strong Teamster representation, a UPS part-timer from Local 2785 in San Francisco will receive more than $48,000 in penalty and back pay for supervisors working in violation of the contract.

Headline News
March 3 -

General President Jim Hoffa addressed Teamsters gathered for UPS grievance panel hearings, telling them that the international union is growing in difficult economic times because of its commitment to organizing the unorganized, including targeting FedEx.

Headline News
February 18 -

Federal and state officials, many facing record budget deficits, are starting to aggressively pursue companies that try to pass off regular employees as independent contractors.

Headline News
January 5 -

“I like being out; I wouldn’t like sitting in an office. I like interacting with people and I’ve made a lot of friends that I’ve delivered to. A lot of the kids have grown up and now they have kids. It’s a very rewarding experience,” Lodovico said.

Press Release
November 6 -

Representatives from UPS and Teamsters Local 2727, which represents approximately 1,200 UPS airline mechanics, met this week in Minneapolis with federal mediators from the National Mediation Board, in an effort to complete the parties’ collective bargaining negotiations.

Headline News
October 30 -

When Virginia “Ginny” Odom walked into a Teamster local more than 35 years ago hoping to get a job with UPS, she was looking for nothing more than steady income on which she could support her two growing daughters.

Headline News
October 28 -

Package delivery rivals FedEx Corp (FDX.N) and United Parcel Service (UPS.N) faced off for the first time over a bill pending in Congress that would change FedEx workers' labor laws, setting out their positions in a debate on Tuesday in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Press Release
October 22 -

UPS Freight workers in Federalsburg, Maryland, and Wichita, Kansas, unanimously voted to ratify their first-ever contract as Teamsters. The Teamsters now represent nearly all of the 12,600 UPS Freight drivers and dockworkers eligible to join the union.