Some parttime UPS laborers say "notable" contract misses the mark

 Some parttime UPS laborers say "notable" contract misses the mark

A speculative understanding among UPS and its unionized labor force was hailed as "notable" this week, with Teamsters initiative flaunting that they "changed the game."

Sean O'Brien, pictured here at Teamsters headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2022, was elected to the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 2022 pledging a more militant approach to employee negotiations. 

President Biden saluted agreement moderators and transportation clients all over the place, breathing a murmur of help that a gigantic strike would probably be deflected. The understanding lifts beginning compensation for seasonal workers to $21 60 minutes, raises the top rate for-time drivers to $49, dispenses with a despised "two-level" wage framework that paid a few drivers short of what others for indistinguishable work and incorporates heat securities and cooling for new trucks.

However, the arrangement should in any case be endorsed by UPS' 340,000 unionized specialists, the vast majority of whom are parttime, and some of whom say it wouldn't fix many years of falling compensation in a truly debilitating position. Those laborers are requiring a "no" vote on the understanding, raising the likelihood that endorsement will come up short.

"A ton of us are baffled and disheartened," said Jose Francisco Negrete, a bundle overseer in Anaheim, California, who has been working at UPS for a very long time. Negrete, who likewise works parttime as a study hall right hand, is important for a group of laborers pushing for a $25 hourly least for seasonal workers.

"$21 is still destitution pay — it's $1.50 more than the In-N-Out, which is a two-minute drive away," he said. "Is that truly going to make some noticeable difference for you? Could it be said that you are as yet going to be working a few positions? Might it be said that you are as yet going to be on government help?"

"You have to fight big, and I don't think we fought big," he said. 

Teamsters held a rally with members of the Writers Guild of America in Los Angeles on July 19, 2023.

Peter Lyngso, a part-time package sorter working in Chicago, called the agr

eement a "sellout," and said it doesn't address longstanding pay disparities between full-time and part-time workers.

"There has been a very loud rank and file movement of part-timers across the country demanding a realignment of wages for what is a brutally difficult job," he said on social media.