Feeder drivers at UPS are often frustrated by company policy on the use of the snubber or plunger on the pintle-hook assemblies that secure the dolly on doubles units. The air-activated plunger is a safety devise that limits play in the hook on the rear of the front trailer. This device prevents the 1″ to 2″ slack that would otherwise allow movement at the dolly connection. Read the rest …
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Comment by Joe Balkis on Wednesday -
Take ups "shirts" out of service!
I purchased Sandy Pope shirts for all of my part timers who wanted them
I purchased Moving Forward Slate shirts for all of my part timers who wanted them.
I am now purchasing my Locals brand new fresh off the press shirts for all of my part timers who want them, but theres a catch.
They have to trade me their old dirty & dusty ups tee-shirt.so I can dispose of them properly.
We need to start looking like Teamsters, thinking like Teamsters & acting like Teamsters.
Our contract is coming up & we need to get organized!
One thing we can do is take ups "shirts" out of service for starts.
If your a full timer, purchase & trade shirts with your part timers.
If you can afford it buy shirts for your whole part time shift who wants them, like I did.
If you can't, buy them for the most active & involved members.
If your a part timer buy & wear a Teamster shirt instead of ups.
Then encourage your Brothers & Sisters to do the same.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on Wednesday
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UPS
TDU in Action at UPS "UPS management is getting leaner and meaner. Supervisors are harassing members and pushing numbers, numbers, numbers. TDU's UPS Network is the best source of information to protect yourself, period." Craig Karnia, Local 705, ChicagoContact Us
Have a question or a comment? Click here to send a question to the TDU UPS Network.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on Wednesday
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UPS Newswire
UPS Profits Up Again
April 27, 2012: UPS made just under a billion dollars in the first quarter of 2012. Brown reported profits of $970 million for the first three months of the year, up 6 percent from last year.Make UPS Deliver the Contract We Deserve
April 24, 2012: UPS Teamsters are building a nationwide campaign to make sure that any early deal makes UPS deliver the contract we deserve
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Comment by Joe Balkis on Wednesday
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Brown’s CEO Gets $2.3 Million Pay Hike
April 18, 2012: United Parcel Service CEO Scott Davis got a whopping 21.62 percent raise to $13.05 million last year according to a company filing with the SEC.Shrinking Pensions for Philly-Area UPSers
April 12, 2012: UPS Teamsters are joining together to win a better contract and stop the downward slide in our pensions.Global UPS Demands Global Unionism
March 30, 2012: UPS just made its biggest acquisition ever, buying TNT Express for $6.8 billion. With contract negotiations on the way, the UPS-TNT deal makes it more important for the Teamsters to coordinate with unions on a global scale.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on Wednesday
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March 28: The decisions from the March National Grievance Panel in Fort Lauderdale are now available online.
FedEx profit more than doubles in fiscal 3rd qtr
March 22, 2012: FedEx Corp. said Thursday its profit between December and February more than doubled as its ground and freight segments shipped more packages and charged higher prices.UPS to buy TNT Express
March 19, 2012: United Parcel Service Inc. said Monday it has agreed to buy TNT Express NV for $6.77 billion (€5.16 billion) in a deal supported by TNT's boards.IBT Signals Early Bargaining in the Works at UPS
March 15, 2012: Speaking at the UPS National Grievance Panel in Florida in early March, Ken Hall confirmed that the International Union is looking at early contract negotiations with UPS.New Threats to UPS Teamster Pensions
March 15, 2012: Protecting our pensions and healthcare has to be a top priority in contract negotiations
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 27, 2012 at 4:52
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Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Intuit, Reed-Elsevier, and others have dropped their membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Click here to tell other firms bankrolling ALEC to do the same.
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Learn more about corporations VOTING to rewrite our laws. ALEC Corporations ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve "model" bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Elected legislators who are active in ALEC, overwhelmingly right-wing politicians, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a "unique," "unparalleled" and "unmatched" organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org. This article contains the names of for-profit corporations, law firms and governmental groups that are known to be, or to have been, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) members or supporters. For corporate trade groups involved with ALEC, see the list here. For think tanks and other non-profit groups involved with ALEC, see the list here. This is a partial list. You can add to it, if you cite your source. Those groups known to be currently involved with ALEC, as of July 2011, appear in BOLD. Contents [hide] 1 Corporate Board 2 For-Profit Corporations 2.1 3 Trade Groups 4 Law Firms 5 Think Tanks and Other Non-Profit Groups 6 Governmental Groups 7 External resources 7.1 External articles 7.2 References
Corporate Board For a more complete list of current and former ALEC "Private Enterprise" board members, see the "Private Enterprise" Board of Directors list. As of 2011:[1] CenterPoint 360, W. Preston Baldwin - Chairman Altria Group, Daniel Smith American Bail Coalition, William Carmichael, Jerry Watson AT&T, William Leahy Bayer Corp., Sandy Oliver Coca-Cola Refreshments, Gene Rackley (Coke announced on April 4, 2012, that it had "elected to discontinue its membership with" ALEC.[2]) See Corporations Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more. Diageo, Kenneth Lane Energy Future Holdings, Sano Blocker ExxonMobil Corporation, Randall Smith GlaxoSmithKline, John Del Giorno Intuit, Inc., Bernie McKay (Intuit told the CMD April 5, 2012 that it had declined to renew ALEC membership[3]) See Corporations Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more. Johnson & Johnson, Don Bohn Koch Companies Public Sector, Mike Morgan Kraft Foods, Inc., Derek Crawford (Kraft announced it would leave ALEC April 5, 2012[4]) See Corporations Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more. Peabody Energy, Kelly Mader Pfizer Inc., Michael Hubert PhRMA, Jeff Bond Reed Elsevier, Inc., Teresa Jennings (Reed Elsevier announced on April 12, 2012, that it had resigned its board seat and dropped its ALEC membership "after considering the broad range of criticism being leveled at ALEC"[5]) See Corporations Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more. Reynolds American, David Powers Salt River Project, Russell Smoldon State Farm Insurance Co., Roland Spies United Parcel Service (UPS)[6], Richard McArdle Wal-Mart Stores, Maggie Sans
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 27, 2012 at 4:50
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UPS and ALEC
ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, is a forty year old organization funded by large corporations and extreme right wing billionaires, like the Koch Brothers. ALEC writes legislation and legislators present it as their own. To date, over 1000 bills have been written by ALEC, and over 20% have passed.
Some of ALEC's "highlights":
-Prison Privatization -Voter Suppression laws -Kill at will laws, like in FL -Attacks on public education funding -Show me your papers law in AZ -Easing laws protecting things like air and water -And of course, the dismantling of the unions
Last week, Coke, Pepsi, Kraft Foods, Intuit, McDonald's, Wendy's The Bill Gates Foundation, and Mars Candy - the makers of Skittles (turns out ALEC had written Florida's "kill at will" laws), all washed their hands of ALEC, as the cockroach is being shown the flashlight. One company that didn't withdraw it's support for ALEC is UPS. Wonder why?
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 3, 2012 at 6:04
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 3, 2012 at 6:00
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UPS Profits Top $4.3 Billion
UPS executives report the company hauled in more than $4.3 billion in profits after taxes in 2011. Management predicts higher volume and higher profits in 2012. Read the rest …
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 3, 2012 at 5:53
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Member Action Delivers 22.3 Jobs, But Run-Around Continues
Three years after the company’s elimination of 22.3 jobs was exposed, the International Union still doesn’t know how many 22.3 jobs UPS owes Teamster members.Before Hoffa and Hall negotiate a new contract, shouldn’t they enforce the old one? Read the rest …
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