
UPS workers OKs 5-year contract, capping contentious negotiations that threatened deliveries
The Teamsters said in a statement that 86% of the votes cast were in favor of ratifying the contract.
The Teamsters said in a statement that 86% of the votes cast were in favor of ratifying the contract.
Some 340,000 UPS employees are inching toward a strike, threatening the largest work stoppage in over half a century, that could upend a part of the broader package delivery system that Americans have come to depend on.
Thousands of Teamster UPS drivers across the United States are expected to authorize a strike Friday, bringing the country a step closer to what would be among the largest work stoppages in decades.
The last time UPS workers walked of the job more than two decades ago, it crippled the shipping company. An emboldened union is threatening to do the same, and this time the disruption would be far greater.
The company, which launched in 2019, hasn’t yet started earning revenue but it expects to do so by the end of the year, says founder Dan O’Toole. He said it’s also on track to meet hiring required to earn state incentives.
Alcohol delivery app Drizly has agreed to tighten its data security and limit data collection to resolve federal regulators’ allegations that its security failures exposed the personal information of some 2.5 million customers.
The company has three years to reach compliance across 1,160 locations and will pay a civil penalty of $5.3 million.
Amazon.com plans about the same number of seasonal workers as last year despite slowing sales and predictions of a lackluster holiday shopping season.
In the Indianapolis area, UPS said it expects to hire more than 3,000 seasonal employees ahead of the holiday rush.
During the second quarter, Amazon’s workforce shrank by roughly 100,000 jobs, to 1.52 million, the biggest quarter-to-quarter contraction in the company’s history.
It’s the second fee hike imposed on merchants this year by the online retail behemoth. In April, the company added a 5% “fuel and inflation” surcharge to offset rising gas costs and inflation.
The mail agency’s board of governors approved a peak-season plan to increase the costs of commercial and retail parcels from early October through late January to capture the bustling holiday shopping season when packages crisscross the country.
Inflation is going to add more than $1 billion to the U.S. Postal Service budget, necessitating a request for another rate increase in January, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday.
FedEx accelerated the rollout of Sunday service in 2020 to handle an historic increase of residential deliveries after COVID-19 spurred lockdowns to stem the spread of the virus.
The Postal Service now wants 50% of its initial purchase of 50,000 next-generation vehicles to be electric, up from the previous plan for 20% being electric.
Aviation authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere are preparing to relax some of the safeguards they imposed to regulate a boom in off-the-shelf consumer drones over the past decade.
Congress mustered rare bipartisan support for the Postal Service package, dropping some of the more controversial proposals to settle on core ways to save the service and ensure its future operations.
Congress would lift onerous budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service deeply into debt and would require it to continue delivering mail six days per week under bipartisan legislation the House approved Tuesday.
Grocery chain Kroger this month opened an east-side fulfillment center to facilitate home delivery in Indianapolis and Richmond.
Nearly 3.4 billion parcels are expected to crisscross the country this holiday season, representing an estimated increase of about 400 million compared with last year.