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FILE PHOTO: United Parcel Service (UPS) vehicles are seen at a facility in Brooklyn, New York City© Thomson Reuters
(Reuters) - The Teamsters local unions, which represent 340,000 workers at United Parcel Service, voted 161-1 on Monday to endorse the tentative agreement reached with the delivery giant on July 25.
The agreement, estimated to be at $30 billion by the union, provides historic wage increases, one more paid holiday and air conditioning in the company's ubiquitous brown delivery trucks.
It also eliminates a two-tier pay system and forced overtime for delivery drivers.
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"Our tentative agreement is richer, stronger, and more far-reaching than any settlement ever negotiated in the history of American organized labor," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien.
Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates did not show up to a meeting in Washington DC to review the agreement.
The union said the rank and file of UPS Teamsters will have the chance to vote on ratification from August 3 to 22.
(Reporting by Ananta Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
Mark Solomon
Mon, July 31, 2023
Teamster local officials endorse UPS contract (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
By a vote of 161-1, Teamsters local unions representing 340,000 full- and part-time workers at UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) voted Monday to endorse the tentative five-year agreement reached with the delivery giant on July 25 and recommend its passage by the full membership.
Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates failed to show up to a meeting in Washington, D.C., to review the tentative agreement, the Teamsters said.
The agreement now moves to the rank-and-file, which will have the chance to vote on ratification from Aug. 3-22.
The gains achieved during negotiations, which occurred regionally and nationally since January, are larger and more lucrative than any previous Teamsters contract at UPS, the Teamsters have said.
The tentative agreement, which the Teamsters said is valued at $30 billion, establishes sizable wage increases for all workers for the life of the contract, installation of air conditioning in new vehicles, the end of a controversial two-tier wage system, catch-up raises for part-timers, Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday for the first time, and new language to prevent forced overtime on days off.
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