Teamsters claim big win with 5-year tentative pact with UPS By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—The Teamsters claimed a big win on July 25 when, within hours of bargaining restarting for the first time in three weeks, UPS agreed to a five-year tentative contract with the union. The pact gives workers substantial raises, eliminates many part-time jobs by raising the positions, and the workers in them, to full-time, and effectively kills the hated two-tier wage system at the nation’s largest package delivery company, which employs 340,000 Teamsters. “We’ve changed the game,” union President Sean O’Brien exulted. Had bosses not settled, they would have forced the workers to strike and cost their own company hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Had the union been forced to walk, it would have been the largest private-sector strike against a single company in U.S. history. The current contract expires at midnight July 31. Before the July 25 session, UPS honchos had walked out of bargaining at 4:15 am on July 5 after presenting what O’Brien called “an insulting” wage offer. “Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits,” O’Brien declared in the union’s extensive press release. “The union went into this fight committed to winning for our members. We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it. UPS has put $30 billion in new money on the table as a direct result of... READ MORE >> Nicaragua celebrates 44th anniversary of Sandinista Revolution By Jamal Rich U.S.-backed coup attempt of 2018 has only strengthened FSLN’s popular support. READ >> Mass Israel chaos over Netanyahu court coup draws mostly silence in U.S. By Mark Gruenberg Only a handful of U.S. trade union leaders and lawmakers condemned the PM’s moves. READ >> Connect with People's World Contact us 3339 S. Halsted Street | Chicago, Illinois 60608 773-446-9920 | contact@peoplesworld.org Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences