The full proposed contract between Atlanta-based UPS and the Teamsters came out Tuesday. UPS is the nation’s largest employer of Teamsters, and the handshake agreement was announced last month.
The new, five-year contract addresses some pressing issues for the package delivery industry. For example, the union asked for more notice of new technology, like drone-delivery, platooning or driverless trucks.
Given the rising demand for weekend deliveries and complaints of forced overtime, the new contract would protect weekends for package drivers but add a new classification of full-time drivers who would work weekends. Those “full-time combination drivers” would work Tuesday-Saturday or Wednesday-Sunday shifts, and not make up more than 25 percent of the number of regular-full-time drivers at a location.
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