• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Shipping giant UPS has warned its profits will be lower than planned this year, in part reflecting the pay increases it agreed to grant US workers in a labour deal last month.

    UPS said the average full-time driver would earn about $170,000 (£135,000) annually, including healthcare and other benefits, by the end of the five-year contract.

    As rising living costs strain household budgets, labour tensions have boiled over, leading to unionisation campaigns at Starbucks and other companies, and strikes across the country.

    In a call to update investors on Tuesday, UPS said the deal reached with the Teamsters - expected to be approved by workers in a vote this month - would also weigh on its profits.

    Prior to the new deal, the company said drivers earned about $95,000 in pay annually on average or about $42 an hour, and another $50,000 in benefits.

    The agreement reached with the Teamsters last month raised starting pay for part-time staff to $21 an hour, recognised Martin Luther King Jr Day in January as a holiday for the first time, and secured improvement in working conditions, including promises to provide air conditioning in new delivery vehicles.


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    • ChronosWing@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Good luck, you gotta work from the bottom up to be a driver. That means being a slave in the warehouse for 20+ years at part time hours.