UPS employees approved a new five-year union contract with the delivery giant on Tuesday, about a month after reaching a tentative deal that averted a strike of about 340,000 United Parcel Services workers.
The Teamsters said 86.3% of members voted for the “historic” deal, saying it was “the highest vote for a contract in the history of the Teamsters at UPS.”
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“Teamsters have set a new standard and raised the bar for pay, benefits and working conditions in the package-delivery industry,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement. “This is the template for how workers should be paid and protected nationwide, and nonunion companies like Amazon
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better pay attention.”
One local supplemental agreement that affects 174 workers in Florida will be renegotiated, the union said.
A UPS spokesperson sent the following statement from the company: “Our Teamsters-represented employees have voted to overwhelmingly ratify a new five-year National Master Agreement that covers more than 300,000 full- and part-time UPS employees in the U.S.”
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