Over 50% of the Teamsters workforce at UPS works part-time. They labor in facilities sorting and loading packages for low wages that, in some parts of the country, are not much higher than the minimum wage.

Teamsters demand pay increases and more full-time jobs for part-timers nationwide. The union’s economic proposals include catch-up raises for existing part-time Teamsters, higher starting wages for new hires, and bigger hourly wage increases and rewards for package car drivers.

Teamsters are calling for an end to two-tier classifications dividing regular package car drivers (RPCDs) doing the same work on different pay scales, referred to at UPS as 22.4s. The union demands an end to this unfair wage system and for all full-time drivers to be classified, paid, and respected as RPCDs.

About half of UPS Teamsters are package car and feeder drivers. The other half work inside facilities as sorters, preloaders, and in other part-time classifications.

In addition to making all drivers RPCDs, the Teamsters are fighting for UPS to create thousands of new full-time job opportunities available each year of the new contract for new and existing part-timers to advance into.

While UPS prides itself as a company that values diversity, equality, and inclusion, workers are forced to deliver on Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth. Teamsters demand respect for civil rights heroes and existing federal holidays by honoring these days as paid holidays.

Technology is a constant threat for workers at a company like UPS — from it being used to unfairly discipline or terminate full- and part-timers to replacing jobs altogether with automatic sorters and driverless vehicles.

Harassment from management is a major problem at UPS, made worse by the company’s attempts to install more driver-facing cameras to surveil Teamsters around the clock. The Teamsters demand an end to such surveillance and seek new language to prevent it from ever being used to discipline workers.