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...UPS announced it would cut 12,000 jobs in an effort to save $1bn just months after agreeing a costly pay deal with its Teamsters union and as weak demand for its delivery services underpinned a soft annual...
...O’Brien’s comments come as the Teamsters renegotiate the largest private sector union contract in the country, between delivery service UPS and its 340,000 US-based drivers and package handlers....
...UPS will pay a sharply higher wage bill after striking a new five-year labour agreement which members of the powerful Teamsters union approved last week....
...Hundreds of freelance drivers in Seattle lobbied for the legislation under the banner of the App-Based Drivers Association, an affiliate of the local Teamsters union....
...over allegations about the legality of the service....
...In November, drivers who transport Facebook staff to and from work in California voted to be represented by the Teamsters union....
...Among the links to technology information sites and Teamsters Union web pages is a comment from a blogger known as Denverbrown....
...They point to midsize operators such as GLS as well as numerous freight forwarders and smaller local players....
...Several hundred members of the SEIU’s local 32BJ, New York’s largest private service workers’ union, rallied on Wednesday near the New York Stock Exchange in downtown Manhattan to call for better contracts...
...Greece has suspended international mail and courier services from Athens International Airport for 48 hours following a spate of attempted parcel bombings that included packages sent to Angela Merkel, German...
...FedEx is taking aim at United Parcel Service for its role in pushing US legislation that would make it easier for express-delivery workers to organise with a multimedia campaign that links its arch rival...
...The move comes as online retailers and other businesses step up plans to switch to alternative delivery services if strikes by the Communication Workers Union go ahead....
...United Parcel Service, the world’s largest parcel delivery company, missed Wall Street’s quarterly profits estimates on Tuesday and gave investors little reason to expect a recovery this year....
...FedEx this week faces the return of a bill that could escalate a lobbying war with organised labour and rival United Parcel Service....
...A bill containing this provision, which was backed by United Parcel Service, FedEx’s archrival, has passed the US House....
...among workers such as Ms Viera in the service sector, as well as in manufacturing, distribution and retailing....
...His decision to retire comes less than a month after the company reached a new contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the labour union that represents 240,000 of UPS’s 360,000 US workers...
...New pastures Just what is it about Poland and the European Union that is so combustible?...
...Those backing the call include New York city’s $41bn pension fund and the Teamsters’ union pension fund as well as Calvert, Walden and Trillium, the socially responsible asset managers....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...s offices at Heathrow airport and in New York, while United said that its cargo office in Frankfurt was targeted by European officials. Lufthansa, United?...
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