parcel volume, according to the global shipping and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. The 24 million packages UPS ships daily amount to about a quarter of all U.S. O’Brien said in a statement that UPS put $30 billion more on the table due to the negotiations, saying the deal “sets a new standard in the labor movement.” The average pay for part-timers had been $20. The agreement also includes a provision to increase starting pay for part-time workers - whom the union says are the most at risk of exploitation - from $16.20 per hour to $21 per hour. Under the tentative agreement, which still needs union members’ approval, full- and part-time union workers will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more by the end of the five-year contract. The Teamsters hailed the agreement as “historic.” Negotiators had already reached tentative agreements on several issues but continued to clash over pay for part-time workers, who make up more than half of the UPS employees represented by the union.
The agreement was announced Tuesday, the first day that UPS and the Teamsters returned to the table after contentious negotiations broke down earlier this month.
NEW YORK (AP) - UPS has reached a tentative contract with its 340,000-person union, potentially averting a strike that threatened to disrupt package deliveries for millions of businesses and households nationwide.
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