Billions of dollars in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan advanced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, as well as a potential ban on the social media app TikTok, measures for the transfer of seized Russian assets to Ukraine, and new sanctions on Iran. Apple’s smartphone shipments in China tumbled 19 percent in the […]
UPS will become the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service. The Atlanta shipping company said Monday that it had received an air cargo contract from the U.S. Postal Service that significantly expands an existing partnership between the two. UPS will move the majority of air cargo in the U.S. for the […]
Five were arrested and six victims were found in a Southern California desert. Officers believe the homicides are linked to a marijuana dispute in San Bernardino County. A decision is made about the U.S. response to the drone strike that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. New details emerge on a fatal shooting that killed […]
The United Parcel Service (UPS) on Tuesday announced 12,000 job cuts after reporting a decline in the volume of packages being shipped, coming months after the company came to an agreement with a top union to pay drivers higher wages. Officials with the shipping firm confirmed to several news outlets the number of job cuts, […]
The union representing 340,000 UPS workers said Tuesday that its members voted to approve the tentative contract agreement reached last month, putting a final seal on contentious labor negotiations that threatened to disrupt package deliveries for millions of businesses and households nationwide. The Teamsters said in a statement that 86 percent of the votes casts […]
Logistics giant UPS has announced lower profits than anticipated for this year, a development that will be further affected by a significant pay increase for its unionised workforce. Through a deal finalized in July, UPS drivers will earn $25,000 more than the current $145,000 per year, raising the average annual salary for full-time drivers to […]
UPS and the Teamsters have reached a tentative deal on a new contract. this could potentially avoid a strike, which could have started as soon as next week and crippled US supply chains. The tentative agreement still needs to be ratified by about 340,000 Teamsters at UPS to end the threat of a strike altogether. […]
UPS and the Teamsters have reached a tentative deal on a new contract. This could potentially avoid a strike, which could have started as soon as next week and crippled U.S. supply chains. The tentative agreement still needs to be ratified by about 340,000 Teamsters at UPS to end the threat of a strike altogether. […]
The United Parcel Service (UPS) and the Teamsters union have announced that the two sides have struck a deal on a new contract, averting the threat of a strike. The Teamsters union, which represents some 1.2 million workers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, said in a July 25 statement that it had […]
A Southern California school district voted to require schools to let parents know if their child is identified as transgender. Both supporters and critics of the policy were present during the heated meeting. UPS workers could be going on strike soon. Unresolved contract disputes might disrupt one of the nation’s largest shipping companies. Getting a […]
Parcel delivery firm UPS and the Teamsters Union on Wednesday accused each other of walking away from the negotiations, with each side blaming the other for walking away from talks. This is delaying contract talks that cover roughly 340,000 U.S. drivers, package handlers, and loaders at UPS. Vaccine maker Moderna said on Wednesday it had […]
The United Parcel Service (UPS) has made a tentative deal with workers lowering the risk of a nationwide strike led by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. On June 29, the Teamsters Union said a “nationwide strike” was “imminent” after walking away from the negotiating table, giving UPS a single day to return with its “last, […]
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters are voting on whether to authorize a strike over low pay and poor working conditions if the union and UPS can’t reach a new contract agreement by Aug. 1. More than 170 local Teamster union chapters across the United States have called upon UPS workers to vote on the strike. […]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, together with 17 other state attorneys general, has demanded that shipping companies UPS and FedEx explain their newly implemented policies to track and record Americans’ firearms purchases, and disclose whether these policies have been coordinated with the Biden administration. In letters sent on Nov. 29 to FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam […]
New guidance released by the White House on Monday suggests that federal contractors will have significant leeway in enforcing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Federal contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, United Airlines, IBM, UPS, and many more employ a significant number of Americans. The new guidance, released on the Safer Federal Workforce website, […]
Carriers of goods including Walmart, UPS, and FedEx are moving to work more shifts—including 24 hours per day, seven days per week—to address global supply disruptions that have contributed to a surge in inflation, the White House said Wednesday. The update was announced ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with the heads of Walmart, FedEx, […]
At least two people died when a twin-engine Cessna crashed in a Southern California neighborhood on Monday, officials said. “We do have multiple confirmed fatalities, we do not know exactly how many,” said Justin Matsushita, deputy fire chief for the city of Santee, in a briefing for reporters. “We do know there are at least […]
NEW YORK—Besides packages, UPS is promising to deliver something else fast: job offers. The package delivery company said Thursday that it plans to hire more than 100,000 people for the busy holiday shipping season, many of whom will get job offers within 30 minutes of applying. UPS needs to snap up workers as fast as […]
