UPS doesn’t give a damn about you and they are doing everything in their power to prove it.

Layoffs. Split shifting. Stonewalling. Deadlocking grievances. Closing buildings. Automation.

This has nothing to do with customer service. If UPS cared about customer service, the company wouldn’t be using DELV to hold back loads and delay deliveries.

This is about corporate greed plain and simple. Under CEO Carol Tomé, the bottom line is the only line.

Wall Street vs. Main Street

Tomé says her vision for UPS is about making the company “Better, Not Bigger”. She means better for Wall Street investors, not our customers and definitely not better for Teamster employees.

UPS made over $91 billion in revenue last year and $8.9 billion in profits.

Tomé wants to take this successful company and serve fewer customers and deliver fewer packages with fewer employees.

This has nothing to do with “better.” Tomé doesn’t even want to make higher revenue. She just wants to squeeze more profit out of each package that we deliver to give billionaire investors more bang for their buck. 

Tomé serves Wall Street. We serve Main Street.

Unions Created the American Dream

As Teamsters, we have a very different idea of what would make UPS a better company.

We fight for good jobs with living wages and union benefits, the kind of jobs that let you raise a family and have a future.

Union jobs and the wages and security they provide are the backbone of what makes this country great.

Unions created the middle class. We created the weekend and paid holidays and paid vacations too.

We literally created the American Dream, first in the private sector in trucking, auto, steel, and healthcare and then in the public sector. Fire fighters, the post office, sanitation, teachers and more.

Today, all of this is under attack.

The same Wall Street speculators that want Tomé to restructure UPS are trying to destroy union jobs from the post office to the TSA to the park service.

The same tech billionaires that are behind automation at UPS are spreading Amazon’s sweatshop model like a cancer.

What makes UPS “better” has nothing to do with any CEO. Teamsters make UPS better. Our productivity is what has driven the company’s success.

Our solidarity has forced this company to deliver wages, benefits and pensions that are the envy of our industry and our union.

We fought for everything we have and we will fight to keep it. Every generation of Teamsters has faced new threats. We’ve met them before and
we will again. One Union! One Goal!