This is actually misleading — it’s a tentative deal and goes to rank and file members to vote on in august. Many rank and file members may vote no on this deal because it actually doesn’t meet their demands effectively. For example: trucks getting ac only applies to new trucks in 2024, and older trucks will not be retrofitted. Also their demands were not met for part time base pay. So it remains to be seen what will happen.
But as rank-and-file workers began to digest the details, some expressed disappointment about the size of pay increases for part-time workers. Others complained that only new delivery vans would get air-conditioning units — not older vans already in service — and not until 2024.
“A lot of guys who are driving will never see an AC unit before they retire,” said Damian Kungle, a part-time UPS employee in Canton, Ohio, who makes $16.65 an hour. “I keep telling them the fact that we got it at all is a win. We moved forward on issues even if they’re not perfect yet.”
“I’m part of a group of part-timers who think a $25 an hour [starting wage] is fair,” said Peter Lyngso, a warehouse employee in Chicago who makes $18 an hour. “This is physically brutal work. We’ve sacrificed so much. But, working this job, it feels like the good parts of life — like going out to dinner and taking a vacation — aren’t meant for us. I’m prepared to vote no.”
For more specifics on why some members are pushing for no votes
It’s also interesting to me that teamsters and ups were eager to push out “we’ve made history!” Big bold graphics for social media and then in small print say “tentative”
