UPS workers approve 5-year contract, capping contentious negotiations that threatened deliveries
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The union representing 340,000 UPS workers says its members voted to approve the tentative contract agreement reached last month.

Under the tentative agreement, full- and part-time union workers will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more in total by the end of the five-year contract. Starting hourly pay for part-time employees also got bumped up to $21, but some workers said that fell short of their expectations.

UPS says that by the end of the new contract, the average UPS full-time driver will make about $170,000 annually in pay and benefits. It’s not clear how much of that figure benefits account for.

  • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    Good for them! I’m glad they got an excellent contract!

    But we need to keep in mind that “and benefits” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I looked at the contract, the pay is something like 30-40 an hour. Good, definitely a living wage, but not $170,000 good. People see that number and think it’s the salary.