UPS to Cut 12,000 Jobs as Wages Rise and Package Volumes Fall: After what the company called a “difficult and disappointing” 2023, UPS said the cuts would save ...
nytimes.com/2024/01/30/business/ups-layoffs-rising-wages-union-contract.html
Quick Glance: UPS Announces 12,000 Job Cuts and Office Return
- UPS is set to cut 12,000 jobs and require employees to return to the office for five days a week.
As the demand for fast package shipments grows, major delivery companies are struggling to deliver a green transition to electric trucks trib.al/IAvRMoQ
Layoffs in 2024: A List of Companies Cutting Jobs This Year: Google, Amazon, BlackRock and UPS are among those announcing layoffs in the new year.
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UPS management layoffs a sign of the industry’s changes, experts say: News that UPS is slashing 12,000 employees — 14% of its managers — sent shock waves through ...
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WSJ News Exclusive | The Biggest Delivery Business in the U.S. Is No Longer UPS or FedEx
wsj.com/business/amazon-vans-outnumber-ups-fedex-750f3c04
Were your holiday deliveries stolen? What to know about porch piracy and what you can do about it
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NASDAQ stock Amazon and NYSE stock FedEx were in partnership talks due to increased competition
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How UPS drivers earn six-figure salaries: UPS veterans know what it takes to reach the $170,000 pay package their drivers receive. They told us all about it.
businessinsider.com/how-ups-drivers-earn-six-figure-salaries-2023-12
Amazon Return Policy: Tips and Tricks for Hassle-Free Returns This Holiday Season
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What If Amazon Delivered Everything You Order From Anywhere?: Amazon’s massive logistics operation could soon become a rival to UPS, FedEx ...
nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/what-if-amazon-delivered-everything-you-order-from-anywhere.html
When's the Final Day to Ship a Gift to Arrive by Christmas With USPS, FedEx, UPS or Amazon?
cnet.com/home/holiday-shipping-deadlines-for-2023-when-do-you-need-to-ship-christmas-packages/
From Breakingviews: Amazon’s aggressive push in delivery has now propelled its volume of US packages shipped past UPS and FedEx ... Show more
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UPS planning to hire 100,000 holiday workers starting with higher pay: UPS announced Tuesday that it will hire more than 100,000 seasonal workers to help with ...
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You Can Do More to Stop Porch Pirates. Here's How to Keep Your Packages Safe: Nearly a third of people will track their package delivery online ...
cnet.com/personal-finance/porch-theft-online-purchases-survey/
WSJ News Exclusive | Ranking the Best Companies for Career Growth: The Fortune 500 employers that help you get ahead by how they hire, pay and promote workers ...
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After 29 Years, Amazon Just Reached a Major Milestone and Everyone Should Pay Attention
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Amazon drivers say they're weighing options after seeing what UPS pays: Amazon drivers say their coworkers are talking about bolting for UPS so they can make six ...
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FedEx announces its own commerce platform for merchants: FedEx is launching its own end-to-end commerce service called FDX for merchants to compete with Amazon ...
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Amazon drivers say they're weighing options after seeing what UPS pays: Amazon drivers say their coworkers are talking about bolting for UPS so they can make six ...
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Unionized UPS workers approve contract leaders agreed to in late July: The union representing 340,000 UPS workers says its members voted to approve the tentative ...
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Quick Glance: UPS Union Approves Contract to Avoid Strikes
- UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union to prevent a strike.
- The contract was passed with the highest vote in the history of the Teamsters at UPS.
- Voting on the new five-year contract began on August 3 and concluded on Tuesday.
UPS driver's $2,400 weekly paycheck sparks viral debate: Reddit is blowing up after a UPS driver shared a picture of their paycheck. The company recently ...
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UPS Drivers at 6 Figures Spur Job Interest After Teamsters Deal: United Parcel Service Inc. has become a hot employer since its union last month secured $30 ...
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Quick Glance: UPS driver pay deal in US worth $170,000 annually, company says
- UPS announced that full-time drivers would earn approximately $170,000 per year, including healthcare and other benefits, by the end of the five-year contract.
- The threat of a strike by the Teamsters union has impacted UPS in recent weeks, with customers redirecting about one million packages per day to rival companies, resulting in a loss of approximately $200 million in sales for the company.
- For drivers, the new contract with the Teamsters union, representing over 300,000 UPS employees, includes a pay increase of $2.50 per hour this year and $7.50 per hour over the course of the five-year deal.
Teamsters Vote in Favor of UPS Deal. It Could Affect Lots of Stocks. : The favorable vote on a new contract with the logistics company is good news for a ...
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AI is policing the package theft beat for UPS as 'porch piracy' surge continues across U.S.
cnbc.com/2023/09/21/ai-is-policing-package-theft-for-ups-as-porch-piracy-surge-continues.html
UPS to train nonunion employees as talks with union for 340,000 workers stalls and deadline nears
detroitnews.com/story/business/2023/07/14/ups-labor-talks-non-union-employees/70414656007/
Quick Glance: UPS strike could be most expensive in a century
- A planned strike at United Parcel Service (UPS.N) in the US could be one of the costliest in at least a century, costing over $7 billion during a 10-day work stoppage, according to a think tank specializing in the economic impact of labor actions on Thursday.
UPS reaches contract agreement with unionized workers, averting calamitous strike
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Quick Glance: UPS reaches agreement with union, avoiding strike
- UPS and the Teamsters have reached an agreement on the largest private-sector contract in North America.
- The agreement includes an increase in starting pay for part-time workers.
- The Teamsters describe the tentative agreement as historic and overwhelmingly lucrative.
- The union is calling for better pay and safety improvements.
B.C. woman bombarded by Amazon deliveries she didn't order: A woman who lives in Langley, B.C., has been beset by a barrage of Amazon packages she didn’t order ...
bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-woman-bombarded-by-amazon-deliveries-she-didn-t-order-1.6513033
Will UPS workers strike? Teamsters union, company end talks without a new contract.
usatoday.com/story/money/2023/07/05/ups-teamsters-negotiations-end-as-strike-looms/70382580007/
Quick Glance: Is a UPS workers' strike looming?
- The company announced that the union has walked away from negotiations.
- Teamsters union will not work without a fully ratified contract after July 31.
- According to a risk analysis by Deutsche Bank, the Teamsters strike fund will be completely depleted within three weeks of a strike starting.
- On June 28, the union walked away from the bargaining table and members began nationwide practice pickets.
UPS Teamsters authorized a strike if they can't reach a new contract soon: Unionized drivers and warehouse workers for UPS said Friday that they have ...
axios.com/2023/06/16/ups-teamsters-strike-united-parcel-service
Teamsters tout UPS deal as it aims to unionize Amazon workers: The UPS-Teamsters contract — which some 340,000 workers are voting on this month — is the ...
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UPS and other shippers have a new vulnerability: their workers: Package delivery companies are wrestling with higher worker pay while demand shrinks across the ...
finance.yahoo.com/news/ups-and-other-shippers-have-a-new-vulnerability-their-workers-154100279.html
UPS workers authorize strike, seen as leverage for pay talks: (This June 16 story has been corrected to fix the date of contract expiration in paragraph 1)
reuters.com/business/ups-workers-authorize-strike-seen-leverage-pay-talks-2023-06-16/
UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 holiday workers this year, on par with last year
seattletimes.com/business/ups-plans-to-hire-more-than-100000-holiday-workers-steady-with-a-year-ago-but-challenges-remain/
TikTok Plans Steep Holiday Discounts, Bringing Amazon Price War: TikTok plans to offer steep holiday discounts in a monthlong campaign that will begin in late ...
time.com/6314923/tiktok-holiday-discounts-amazon-price-war/
America Is Drowning in Packages: UPS workers have an impossible job in the Amazon age.
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/ups-strike-union-contract-package-deliveries/674864/
UPS strike would deal blow to U.S. inflation fight, supply chain: A walkout by UPS workers would snarl shipments of the 19 million packages that UPS moves daily ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-21/ups-strike-looms-will-my-amazon-packages-be-delayed
Amazon Drivers Union Is Target for Teamsters After UPS Contract: A tentative agreement between the Teamsters union and UPS could mean trouble for Amazon ...
bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-02/amazon-drivers-union-is-target-for-teamsters-after-ups-contract
What to know about the potential UPS Teamsters strike: The union contract is set to expire on July 31.
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UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time
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Unpackaged is apparently preferred by Amazon: new return shipping rates surfaced.
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As UPS deadline nears, strike appears more likely with no deal in place: A work stoppage over pay and benefits for some 340,000 UPS employees could upend the ...
washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/20/ups-strike-deadline-union-teamsters/
I am a UPS driver who loves my job but hates the workplace politics: This UPS driver enjoys his job but doesn't like the tension between his union and corporate ...
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The Union Organizing Drive Against Corporate America: Labor unions made 53% more petitions to organize workers in fiscal 2022, at companies from Starbucks to ...
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The Hollywood strikes, UPS labor talks, and recent unionization efforts at Amazon and Starbucks are raising the question of how the power of workers and ... Show more
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UPS jobs are hot after union deal wins major pay bump: Search interest in UPS jobs has surged since the shipping giant reached an agreement with its unionized ...
axios.com/2023/08/10/ups-jobs-increase-interest-pay-bump
UPS workers' union leader explains what's at stake as strike edges closer: Contract negotiations have stalled, with both sides blaming the other.
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Teamsters Head Sean O’Brien Targets Amazon After UPS Win: Hours after reaching a tentative deal to boost pay and benefits for hundreds of thousands of United ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/teamsters-chief-takes-aim-at-amazon-following-ups-contract-win
FedEx to fold Canada contractor-based Ground unit into Express: FedEx (FDX.N) on Tuesday said it will merge its contractor-based Ground delivery operations in ...
reuters.com/business/fedex-fold-canada-ground-unit-into-express-2023-06-20/
Delivery drivers want protection against heat. But it's an uphill battle: As heat waves hit the U.S., delivery drivers are especially vulnerable to rising ...
npr.org/2023/07/20/1188282961/delivery-drivers-want-protection-against-heat-but-its-an-uphill-battle
Canadian woman swamped with over 50 Amazon packages she never ordered: "I start shaking when I see packages at my door," she told CBC, "they keep coming and it ...
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They want you to ‘click this link to reschedule your delivery,’ but don’t do it: With the increase in online shopping, scammers have pivoted to package ...
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How a UPS strike could disrupt deliveries and roil the package delivery business
npr.org/2023/07/12/1186984345/ups-strike-shipping-package-delivery
Amazon will charge customers a fee for some UPS returns: Amazon is attempting new measures to get customers to return fewer of their online orders ...
cnn.com/2023/04/12/business/amazon-returns-ups-store-fee/
Amazon relaunches its shipping service paused during pandemic: Amazon has restarted a shipping service it paused in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
columbian.com/news/2023/aug/18/amazon-relaunches-its-shipping-service-paused-during-pandemic/
Everyone wants to be a UPS driver now: $170,000 a year sounds pretty good—and it's motivating other delivery workers, too
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Quick Glance: High Demand for UPS Drivers
- Part of the announcement: Full-time UPS drivers will now earn $170,000 in pay and benefits.
- Google searches for 'UPS driver jobs near me' are trending.
- Many of these jobs include truck drivers who are now in need of a new job.
- UPS's contract deal is inspiring other delivery workers as well.
FedEx Rises On These Big Moves: FedEx hiked its dividend and laid out a major reorganization to slash costs. FDX stock jumped out of a buy zone.
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Everyone wants to be a UPS driver now: $170,000 a year sounds pretty good—and it's motivating other delivery workers, too
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Let it bubble over: PTO-passers and DEI defeats the courts this week in The Memo.
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UPS, Teamsters open high-stakes US labor talks: United Parcel Service (UPS.N) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union on Monday started U.S ...
reuters.com/business/ups-teamsters-open-high-stakes-us-labor-talks-2023-04-17/
In era of tech disruption and instant gratification, workers say they're pushed to the brink
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Quick Glance: Demands for Speed and Convenience Drive Strikes in Various Industries
- Complaints from workers in different industries: UPS drivers and Hollywood actors and writers
- Workers push back against forced overtime, punishing schedules, and reliance on lower-paid, part-time, or contract workers
- Hollywood screenwriters and actors strike due to the impact of streaming on the entertainment industry
- UPS agrees to end forced overtime on days off and convert lower-paid drivers to full-time positions
Amazon, other retailers revamp 'free' shipping as costs soar: There is no such thing as free shipping.
reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-other-retailers-revamp-free-shipping-costs-soar-2023-03-24/
Pa. tops states with most OSHA complaints against Amazon, FedEx, UPS: Pennsylvania was found to rank among the states with the most OSHA complaints against ...
pennlive.com/life/2023/08/pa-top-states-with-most-osha-complaints-against-amazon-fedex-ups.html
Teamsters strike with UPS could snarl commerce as labor flexes muscle: A strike authorized Friday by Teamsters working for shipping giant UPS is the latest flash ...
thehill.com/business/4058901-teamsters-strike-with-ups-could-snarl-commerce-as-labor-flexes-muscle/
The biggest online retailer in the US is warning of 'cautious spending': While the company grew overall net sales in North America by 11%, Amazon’s online store ...
finance.yahoo.com/news/the-biggest-online-retailer-in-the-us-is-warning-of-cautious-spending-163914456.html
Teamsters Head Sean O’Brien Targets Amazon After UPS Win: Hours after reaching a tentative deal to boost pay and benefits for hundreds of thousands of United ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/teamsters-chief-takes-aim-at-amazon-following-ups-contract-win
A UPS Strike Looms; Here’s Why Target, Other Big Retailers Will Be Fine: The retailers have invested a lot of time and money into building this.
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‘We’re going to see workers die’: extreme heat is key issue in UPS contract talks
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Amazon fee at UPS signals crack in era of free returns: Free online returns are something consumers may soon have to learn to live without.
axios.com/2023/04/14/amazon-return-ups-fee-free-returns
UPS Earnings Had an Ominous Warning for E-Commerce Companies: UPS and Packaging Corp. warn that Americans are shopping online less.
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FedEx's biggest shift in decades comes with huge risks: The changes will make FedEx's operational strategies more like competitors UPS and DHL — and resurface ...
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Teamsters hold off on strike to continue negotiations with UPS - UPI.com: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Friday that they will hold off on a ...
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Amazon, other retailers revamp 'free' shipping as costs soar: There is no such thing as free shipping.
reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-other-retailers-revamp-free-shipping-costs-soar-2023-03-24/
UPS and Teamsters negotiations matter to us all. UPS is subsidized with public dollars.
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How FedEx, Amazon and UPS are cutting costs in the current economic climate: FedEx, Amazon and UPS have all announced notable cost cutting moves in response to ...
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UPS workers resumed practicing for a strike after negotiations broke down: The strike was authorized by 97% of unionized workers last month
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Delivery Drivers Share What It’s Like Delivering in Hazardous Wildfire Smoke: Drivers are delivering through Canadian wildfire smoke with coughing fits ...
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Band-Aid beats out Amazon, Visa as most trusted brand in the US: Band-Aid was the most trusted brand in the US, beating out Amazon, Visa, and UPS ...
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