Welcome to UPSFreightTalk.org

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 20:34

UPSFreightTalk.org is a website for UPS Freight Teamsters who are working together to improve our contract.

The contract expires July 31, 2013. The time to get ready is now. We need to reach out to every UPS Freight Teamster. And we know that management wants to settle the contract early.

We work for the deepest pockets in trucking. But management is sticking us with substandard benefits and work rules—and subcontracting good union jobs.

This website is an independent voice for rank-and-file members—of, by and for UPS Freight Teamsters. We work with Teamsters for a Democratic Union, our union’s national rank-and-file network.

We know we deserve better. But we don’t expect miracles. We worked hard to join the Teamsters—and we’ll put that same energy in to winning the contract we deserve.

Are you ready to do your part for a better contract? Here’s how you can help:

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Tell us what you think. What are the improvements you’d like to see in the next round of bargaining? Send us a message or post a comment below.

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Comments

Submitted by topper682 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 12:52.

NOTHING LESS THAN NATIONAL MASTER FREIGHT! THE TIME HAS RUN OUT ON A WHITE PAPER SUB-STANDARD CONTRACT.FREIGHT IS FREIGHT! ITS TIME TO PREPARE OUR SELVES FOR 2013! WHICH MEANS SUMMER BREAK 2013!

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Submitted by JohnColtrane333 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 20:52.

No one is talking about our Truckload Div. Those guys work for our company, pull LTL Frieght and they do not have a contract. We need to start talking our members and help Truckload get a contract. We need those guys to be with us.

Submitted by bordom on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 01:25.

TL drivers guys are taking our LTL freight from Road/Line drivers. We are looking for a better contract for Road/Line Drivers at all UPS owned facilities. This new division of TL is another loop hole for UPS freight to make their own Road/Line Drivers look useless and use TL drivers. If the work is terminal to terminal or meet point/non UPS drop off yard for the trailer going to any UPS owned terminal it belongs to us Road/Line drivers. Almost all Truck Load companies in the USA pick up freight from 1 or more *warehouses* and deliver it to another *warehouse*. The work TL division is slowly diminishing Road/Line drivers work. It is in the Road/Line drivers best interest to stop this loop ho and Teamsters to start helping their own first. *I PAY DUES* lets make this contract work for the interest of our present and future brother/sisters.

Submitted by DucHntr on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 05:24.

Here is a comment sent to me by a brother and good friend in another local:

Here we go again! Looks like I will be heading back to the xtra board after 14 years company senority and just over 5 yrs on my current terminal's road board. We recently lost a run, and an employee who has been gone for a while(FMLA type leave) will be coming back. This leaves me and the guy above me with xtra board runs. In the past 5 years our xtra board driver (usually me) gets 3-4 runs a week, sometimes more, sometimes less, but we have never really had 2 xtra board positions. Probably because there is not enough work with only 5 bid runs at our center now. I expect to make just enough to not be elgible for unemployment and I can't get a second job either since I am on-call. At what point should the company be forced to layoff a road driver and allow bumping by company senority into different classifications? Should there be a minimum weekly gross pay over a rolling 8 week period or some similar guaranteed paid level to keep them from starving us out? Something to think about for our next contract.

Submitted by bigtutter47 on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 19:13.

DucHntr,It is a shame that the question has to be asked "at what point do you lay off a man" when you still have non union drivers working every day while company drivers set home. The fact of the matter is your friend might be starved out of a job and not layed off.Noone seems to care because it hasn't affected them personally.When you are in his position,the bottom man, the only one affected will be you so you stand alone.Everyone for themselves.It will be interesting to see if the membership will stand with the guys on the bottom in the next contract.If your friend worked in a single line seniority terminal would he work every day and would he have more of a chance to bid a more regular position at bid time?
Good luck to your friend.

Submitted by DucHntr on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 04:20.

Yes bigtutter47, it is sad that someone would ask when to lay off a bargaining unit employee while subcontractors are doing his/her work! And yes, in my friend's case, a single line or board bid system would totally benifit him as he is the most company senior person at his terminal! Even so, there still needs to be improvements in a guaranteed workweek for road drivers as well as stronger language against subcontracting, I also am a total supporter of a single line bid system.