With volume down, layoffs, harassment and discipline are up. Fight layoffs and protect our jobs by doing the job right and enforcing the contract.

• Don’t be a runner. Running your route only encourages management to up your stop counts even more. Working at a sustainable pace reduces layoffs.
  
  
• Use 8-hour requests. Instead of burning your route to get home at a reasonable hour, use an 8-hour request. You only have to give three calendar days notice, down from five days under the old contract. The penalty for a violation is now two hours at double time. UPS has to adjust your dispatch before your start time or remove work before a driver departs the building. If you determine you still cannot finish the route in eight hours, you have until 1pm to notify management, who must make further adjustments during the day to ensure you are off in eight hours.
  
  
• Get on the 9.5 list and file grievances. If eight drivers reduce their work day by one hour of excessive overtime, that creates a new route.
  
  
• Don’t work before your start time or load your own truck. That work belongs to Teamster preloaders.
  
  
• Don’t work off the clock. Don’t sort your packages or adjust your load during your lunch. Make UPS pay you for every second you work.
  
  
• Take your breaks when you’re supposed to. Drivers must take and complete their lunch between noon and three.
  
  
• Air drivers should deliver air packages only. Ground packages should only be delivered by package drivers. If you are given a ground package to deliver, document it in your DIAD and file a grievance.
  
  
• Find a bathroom when you have to go even if you have to go off-route. This right is protected by OSHA and federal law. Use it, don’t abuse it. Find the nearest bathroom.