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“When I becomes We,
When Him or Her becomes Us,
When My becomes Our,
And when the Individual becomes the Collective,
Then the boss begins to sit up and take notice!”


“Rise like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth, like dew,
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many they are few!”
P.B.Shelley

 

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CHARLTON CENTRE TO CLOSE
Sunday, 14 June 2009

 

CHARLTON CENTRE TO CLOSE

 

UPS have announced that they will be closing Charlton Centre on the 31st July with the work transferring to Croydon, Dartford and Camden Centres.

We can only assume that this closure is part of the Company's cost cutting initiatives in response to the current economic recession.

The closure creates a "potential" redundancy situation for the 21 pc drivers, 15 sorter/loaders and 1 feeder driver. However we expect all employees to be offered alternative employment at other UPS locations.

Charlton was an ex-Carryfast depot which was acquired in the 1980s when Pacesetter parcels closed. Frank Osborne, the then shop steward at Charlton, was at the forefront of the campaign for a union recognition agreement with UPS following the acquisition of Carryfast in 1992.

 
Experts Say FedEx Anti-Union Campaign is Misleading
Friday, 12 June 2009

FedEx’s has launched a multi-million dollar PR campaign to stop federal legislation that would make it easier for drivers and package handlers to unionize.

But experts say the campaign is misleading and may backfire.

FedEx is up in arms because the House of Representatives approved a bill that would bring the company under the National Labor Relations Act which would give employees there the same right to unionize as they have at UPS.  

In response to the bill, FedEx launched a PR campaign accusing UPS of taking a government bailout.   

FedEx’s campaign comes complete with a website called BrownBailout.com that accuses UPS of “quietly seeking a Congressional bailout designed to limit competition for overnight deliveries.”  

But as the New York Times points out, “The real issue here is not government-supplied cash for UPS., but the labor laws under which UPS and FedEx are classified.”

The legislation, which now must pass the Senate and be signed by President Obama to become law, would simply put FedEx under the same federal labor law as UPS. Hardly a bailout!  

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FedEx readies campaign against UPS over labor bill
Thursday, 11 June 2009

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NEW YORK (AP) — FedEx Corp. is set to launch a multimillion dollar marketing campaign on Tuesday against chief rival UPS Inc., arguing the world's largest shipping carrier is the driving force behind a bill that would make it easier for FedEx workers to unionize.

The bill currently before Congress would switch FedEx to the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act from the National Railway Labor Act. The Railway Labor Act allows workers to organize, if all workers vote on a union at the same time. That has been a roadblock to unions that could not afford nationwide organizing campaigns.

If FedEx Express workers were to be reclassified under the National Labor Relations Act, they could organize one terminal at a time.

FedEx's nearly 5,000 pilots are the company's only employees that currently have a union. The company has a total work force of 290,000. UPS has about 425,000 workers; more than half are union members. Most of UPS' unionized workers are members of the Teamsters.

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UPS buys delivery firm in Slovenia
Wednesday, 03 June 2009

UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, says it has acquired a unit of a European firm that has been its middleman for small package delivery in Slovenia for 18 years.

Terms of the Atlanta-based company's purchase of a unit of Intereuropa Globalni Logisticni Servis were not disclosed Tuesday.

UPS says the purchase will give it greater flexibility to invest in its global brand, transportation network, technology and workforce to better serve customers in the central European country.

Slovenia is a relatively small market for UPS, though more than half of UPS' international volume comes from Europe.

 
Electronic OJS: UPS Rolls Out New Technology
Wednesday, 03 June 2009

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UPS is implementing new technology that allows management to monitor drivers like never before--beginning with an upgrade to the DIAD software and culminating in telematics, a new system that amounts to a daily electronic OJS.

UPS’s new spyware began with an upgrade to the DIAD software that the company calls ODSE (On Demand Services Enhancement). The software allows management to monitor drivers’ routes on a computer screen in the center. Management can call up a snapshot of the entire center or any individual or combination of routes.

The company says that the technology gives the center better information when dispatching a driver for a pickup or sending a driver to help out another driver. But many Teamsters have had management use ODSE to question them about their route, leaving trace, etc.

ODSE provides both more and less information than GPS. The system lets management monitor recommended trace, service levels of packages on the truck, the number of packages and stops delivered, the location of on-call air and one-time pick-ups and more.

But all this information is based on the DIAD, not GPS. Management cannot call up the actual location of a package car, just the location that was last entered on the DIAD.
 

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UPS, pilots union sign deal that could avert layoffs
Friday, 29 May 2009

UPS and its Louisville-based pilots union have signed an agreement that could ward off indefinite layoffs for about 300 pilots.

But pilots will have to save the company $40 million this year through voluntary measures, including leaves of absence and early retirements, to keep layoffs from occurring.

UPS Airlines' roughly 3,000 pilots have until 8 a.m. Friday to volunteer for some cost-saving steps and until Tuesday morning to sign up for others, including job sharing and giving up some sick-time credits.

The company will then have until June 7 to calculate whether the savings meet the $40 million target.
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Unite for jobs
Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Unite for Jobs

Unite for Jobs represents a landmark campaign bringing the union together with senior business, academic and political figures to make a historic case for action to protect jobs.

This historic and formidable alliance has been formed because, quite simply, the government is not doing enough to protect our members’ jobs and skills base. Time is running out and without a concerted effort from national government to protect jobs, our international standing as a country where employers can find talented workers will be shattered for years to come. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that “without government intervention now, some industries may never recover, particular our manufacturing and components industry”.

That is why we organised the Unite for Jobs march through our manufacturing heartland, Birmingham, on 16 May 2009. The march has formed the centrepiece event of the Unite for Jobs campaign. Thousands turned out and every region played a full part in making this major initiative a success.

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