The current contract provides too little protection. The 9.5-hour rule is not a solution. We need to fight to make overtime voluntary. Stop Management Harassment Production harassment has a chilling effect and undermines our rights and contract protections. We need language with teeth in it, such as three strikes and you re out for supervisors guilty of harassment.
Loopholes allow management to work air drivers for straight time on holidays.
It s time to end the two-tier deal of Article 40. In 1997 we won stronger contract protection against the subcontracting of feeder work. UPS is still determined tp move this volume on the ground as we have seen with the rash of subcontracting that began in 1999. They also are looking to divert existing work to non-union brokers. We need a complete end to subcontracting.