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UPS Drivers Finally Getting Air Conditioning In Delivery Trucks

Not all UPS delivery vehicles will have ACs, though.

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UPS labor talks heat up as both sides race to prevent first strike in 25 years

With less than five weeks to go before the expiration of a United Parcel Service Inc. labor contract, talks to renew the agreement have moved into a critical phase as negotiators begin hammering out pay raises for about 340,000 workers.

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‘We’re going to keep fighting’: delivery workers stand up to Amazon

Unionized workers at delivery service partner in California fight company’s intent to terminate contract

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UPS Teamsters vote to authorize strike if contract deal isn’t reached

Teamsters members at UPS have voted in favor of authorizing a strike in the event that ongoing negotiations fail to reach an agreement.

Tribune News Service

‘This is on the company’: UPS workers vote to strike as negotiations continue

Push in new contract include air conditioning in vehicles, pay increases for part-time workers and end to two-tier wages

The Guardian - US

Unionized UPS workers vote to authorize a strike in high-stakes negotiations for a new contract

Unionized UPS workers voted to authorize a strike on Friday, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and the Teamsters can’t come to an agreement on a new contract

The Independent UK

UPS workers facing extreme heat win a deal to get air conditioning in new trucks

The agreement with the Teamsters comes after complaints from labor leaders, workers and their families that the company has not done enough to protect drivers from scorching temperatures on the job.

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Teamsters talks: UPS agrees to equip new trucks with air conditioning

UPS has agreed in contract talks to put air conditioning in new trucks for its drivers, a major step in a long-standing battle, as part of ongoing negotiations with the Teamsters union.

Tribune News Service

KBJ: A lone SCOTUS dissenter brings hope

Justice Jackson’s early impact has been deeply felt through biting dissents and cross-partisan judicial coalitions

Salon

US Supreme Court deals blow to organised labour in new ruling

The case Glacier Northwest Inc v Teamsters is seen as the latest test of union rights to go before the court.

Al Jazeera

Inside the writers' 'guerrilla tactics' to shut down live productions

On a frigid early morning in Chicago last week, screenwriter Michael Gilio bundled into a car in the city's West Side with other writers and made his way to Cinespace studios, located in an industrial zone.

Los Angeles Times

UPS strike looms in a world reliant on deliveries

The last time UPS workers walked of the job more than two decades ago, it crippled the shipping company

The Independent UK

Focus organizing drives on workers without college degrees, US unions told

Experts say union upsurge for journalists and graduate students is pleasing but blue-collar workers require assistance too

The Guardian - US

Teamsters Local 731 leader Hancock ousted over spending

In appointing a trustee to manage the local, Teamsters International President Sean O’Brien raised questions about $1.3 million in spending dating from 2018.

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UPS, Teamsters poised for massive contract talks for 330,000 workers

Negotiations are looming for the largest private collective bargaining agreement in North America, a high-stakes matchup between the Teamsters and package delivery giant UPS that could have reverberations far beyond the Sandy Springs-based company.

The Guardian - US

Workers protest Energizer’s plans to close Wisconsin plants

The closure would lead to hundreds of job losses in a community of just under 3,000 people in Fennimore

The Guardian - US

‘Referred to as inmates by managers’: DHL workers push to unionize US hub

Former manager says company managers referred to themselves as ‘wardens’ as they sought to frustrate unionization effort

The Independent UK

Teamsters boss boasts about taking on ‘schoolyard bully’ Republican at fiery Senate hearing

Sean O’Brien and Sen Markwayne Mullin squared off at a Senate HELP committee hearing

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‘Shut your mouth’: Republican senator and Teamsters leader in fiery clash

Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, argues with union’s Sean O’Brien as Bernie Sanders seeks order in Senate hearing

Ballotpedia

SCOTUS hears argument in case challenging scope of NLRB authority

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

Tribune News Service

UPS reports $11.55 billion profit for 2022 as it continues to hike rates

UPS reported an $11.55 billion profit for 2022 and reached $100.34 billion in revenue for the year, as it continues to hike shipping rates.

Tribune News Service

As Teamsters push better deal, UPS touts pay, career development

As it faces criticism from the Teamsters union ahead of what are expected to be tough labor contract talks this year, UPS issued a jobs report Wednesday touting its wages and ways workers can build a career within the company.

Tribune News Service

Feds to provide $36 billion to ensure Teamsters pensions through 2051

The federal government will allocate $36 billion to shore up the Central States Pension Fund, a cash-strapped retirement fund that primarily benefits members of the Teamsters union, President Joe Biden announced Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Warnock, Walker rally voters with events a day before Georgia's runoff election

ATLANTA — U.S. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker are taking new steps to energize their supporters on the eve of the Georgia Senate runoff for the last election battle of 2022.

Salon

Mike Davis' odyssey to "City of Quartz"

How driving delivery trucks and tour buses led the late Mike Davis to write his landmark work of L.A. history

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