UPS reaches tentative contract with 340,000 unionized workers, potentially dodging calamitous strike

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UPS reaches tentative contract with 340,000 unionized workers, potentially dodging calamitous strike
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This is great news and huge positive impact for the nation.

We'll see. Our local UPS driver said the part time guys in our local hub was only getting 9 dollars an hour. That nowhere close to the 16.50 they are boasting about.

How is that possible if they are employed under union rules?

A lot aren't, which was a large part of people that were protesting (they are part timers therefore not union members, and in a lot of them make around half as much union employees with no benefits).

Possible the part-time workers are contractors? Maybe they wouldn’t be in the union

Yes. Exactly what I was getting at. They must not be union