Plane Buzzes CEO With Message from UPS Teamsters

Written by Admin | 13 November 2009

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Outside the hub, Local 177 officers distributed leaflets in the parking lot with the same message. 

Click here to see video footage on You Tube.


Local 177 members are fed up with contract violations and company stonewalling in the grievance procedure. 

The local has thirty arbitrations scheduled on supervisors working violations—each one dealing with serial violations by individual supervisors.  Management has dragged the first hearing out for five days with no end in sight. 

And that’s just on the first arbitration. There are 29 to go! Production harassment and ridiculous write-up of package drivers is another major issue—just like it is across the country. 

As the plane circled the building, top regional management descended on Edison in a panic. (You can see their worried faces and cell phone scramble and worried faces in the video.) 

It shouldn’t take an airplane banner to get management’s attention.  

UPS Makes $549 Million in Third Quarter

Written by Admin | 23 October 2009

UPS announced after-tax profits of $549 million for the third quarter of 2009 (July-Sept), up from $445 million in the second quarter.  

It’s no surprise that in this economy, UPS’s profits are down from last year. UPS made $970 million in the second quarter of 2008. But UPS is still making big money—and still beating the competition.

In a terrible economy, UPS has hauled in $1.4 billion in after-tax profits since the beginning of the year.


By comparison, FedEx made just $181 million in the last quarter—and lost $779 million in the six months before that.

Total package volume is down 3.6 percent—a drop, but not enough to justify the number of laid-off drivers, combined routes and excessive overtime.  

With $1.4 billion in profit after taxes already in the bank, no one needs to be crying tears for Big Brown.  The working Teamsters who busted our backs to create these profits deserve a little more respect and a lot more contract enforcement.

Click here to read UPS's press release on its Third Quarter profits. 

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