When you think of good middle class jobs, you probably think of UPS. But the shipping giant has a secret.
While full time delivery drivers are the face of UPS, it’s the part-time workers like Cesar Mendoza who are the heart of the $100 billion shipping behemoth. In fact part-timers make up around 60% of the 340,000 UPS workers represented by the Teamsters.
These workers have been ignored for nearly 30 years, but as UPS and the union wrestle over a new contract – with a massive strike looming July 31st – part-time workers are coming out of the shadows to tell their story of what its really like to work for the world’s largest package delivery company.
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Hello UPS,
Or, previously know as:
United Parcel Service!
Well UPS, by the transparent delivery of information upon your worker side of things it sounds like you have lost the first abbreviated word meaning to your name! You might have to decide to change that first letter of your company name to a “D” for “Divided” as it seems like that is witch you are now!
🤨👉DPS
Boomers: millienials are lazy!
Strike if need be but, don't let Brandon throw you under the bus like he did railroad workers.
Sorry but I quit my job
Y'all can 2 (america)
Amazon told my son that if he wanted to stay beyond his scheduled 4 hours (not guaranteed hours), he could stay ONLY if he made sure he didn’t pass 6 hours a shift or 29 hours in a week… also, that he’d be in trouble if they had to pay him for a lunch break.🤦🏽♀️
No medical.
No paid vacation.
No sick days.
No continuity, mentorship, or pride in the work.
No team.
Multiple floor work leaders, no unified plan, hit or miss communication…
The company is set up so either they, or the employee, can walk away no harm no foul anytime. If the employee leaves without notice, they must wait 90 days to be eligible for return.
Why would anyone want to stick with a company that won’t value your work.
Publicly traded companies are all about doing more with less; more money for investors and CEOs.
It’s confusing because all I see out there is “we are Hiring “ signs. So there are plenty of jobs out there.
Some of the best benefits in the nation, for that little 3 hour shift. But you know what? Both the pre loaders and the pre load supervisors suck. Every single day my load quality is terrible. They want better pay, but I bet they won't do a better job. Just throw it in there, who cares. Let the drivers deal with it. Out in the heat!
Thank the previous administration under Hoffa for this company doing whatever the hell it wants. In Chicago our union needs a Sean o brian. Pathetic representation.
The other side of the coin is that no one forces you to work there and you don’t have to live in California where life is unaffordable. It’s almost a guarantee that when the agreement is finally reached, before or after the strike, members of the union will still be grumbling. Also remember, if you want the public on your side, you’ll have to convince them that paying more for delivery is a good thing.
Working night shift suck and par time is BS!
People need to start going on strike and quit putting up with this BS the only way they will hear you is if you make a scene and a stand to not put up with the horrible treatment
I don't feel sorry for them it's part time it's not for supporting a family it's a second income
Amount of pay and benefits the drivers get doesn't balance out the divorce or child neglect you get in the future.
Seems like the union is a big issue here. Yeah ups is using part time employees to get around full time pay and the union hasnt done anything to stop it or at least help them out.
When I was younger, I was working a job that didn't give me what I thought I was worth . I found one that was . They are out there .
The answer is simple quit your job be and over the road driver get more money if u can afford rent sir
I had a microwave arrived yesterday through ups and it was smashed beyond use. Good job fellas
Im so of a teamster ups worker and I was in the picket line during the strick in the 90s at the age of 5 and I will definitely be there again. It's time for a real change I just hope that the fed government won't break it up because Joe Biden always talks about standing with unions but I find that hard to believe after the rail road strick.
These part-time positions were originally designed for kids living at home and going to school and college You stayed there way too long
I work there part time for seven years then went full time Now I’m making 145,000 per year driving a semi
Anybody could have done what I did
“Freedom’s never Free”! Stay strong together.
Whàt a zero skill entry level job has shity pay and bad wages? No way
It's n9 secret to me that UPS and other large corporations are fuck8ng people over
All workers need to quit there jobs so companys can hire homeless people
I worked at Secaucus at the main sort, the Square D sort for Jersey City and was also a driver helper at Square D during the holidays.
Secaucus was nuts every day. It’s the busiest UPS hub on the planet in terms of packages moved. Louisville is the busiest air sort on the planet.
We used to unload the air sort in less than 10 mins some days especially a late truck coming from EWR. Pop the air capsules and literally open every bag and just slide them non stop on the belts to be scanned.
All UPS drivers no matter semi or delivery are the reason why they even exist. They’re all drastically underpaid. I’ve had my CDL for 5 years now.
Hands down the best company to work as a truck driver is Walmart. Hell facility maintenance employees at Walmart make hundreds per hour!!!
They do it to their own supervisors too. Part time, no chance to advance, and if you try to transfer upper mgt squashes that request.
They only profited 73+ billion last year
With fedex self imploding, pay our part timers, give them those full time positions and wait for fedex to crumble. Then EVERYONE can really eat.
The biggest problem with the union is new hires have union dues deducted from their paychecks up front but they DO NOT receive any benefits of being in the union for a year… Sounds like a weird version of a Ponzi scheme.. Either that, or organized crime IS STILL in control…..😮😮😮😮😮
6:39 I don’t think capitalism was EVER meant to help people live rewarding lives in good well paying jobs…capitalism is about making money; PERIOD…
Big companies will try to get the absolute most out of you while giving you the least amount possible
The young guys have every right to be concerned that the more senior employees will sell them out, as they have in the past. UPS just didn't get to treat package handlers like shit on their own, the union agreed to it.
Worked there 6 years, 1 as Employee and 5 as a part time supervisor, Quit 9 months, became a CDL A truck driver and drove for another company, best decision I ever made, made some great friends there but it is true, I was working every day as a supervisor, mondays were the worst, no staff, when they came up with that min – fri and tue-sat schedules to avoid paying over time.
That's how they became a multibillion-dollar company low balling their employees if it wasn't for the employees they wouldn't be a multibillion-dollar company my son work for them mountain Middletown Pennsylvania he was getting screwed I got him a job at my company I work for an LTL company non-union company-paid health insurance you pay a little bit for dental they have employee assistant programs 401k different savings programs they have helplines if you need a lawyer for legal problems financial help they start you out at starting salary you go top right after 3 months average line haul driver makes a 100,000 a year or more and we're a non-union in the summertime we have company cookouts once a month in the summer whole lot better places then working at UPS since you guys are out in California I believe you guys are might want to look at Old Dominion they're really good company I think Estes might be out there you make good money at Estes but you put up with a lot of crap I was talking to some of the drivers at Estes they love the money but they hate the job if I was going to get a non-union out west it would probably be Old Dominion they have good equipment and they pay their drivers good and I imagine they pay their dockworkers pretty well.
Everyone makes a choice. Quit enough of you walk away change will be made.
It’s the same for most industries. This is nothing new. I worked as a contract employee in engineering for 35 years.
You’re unskilled labor. What exactly are y’all looking for? 100k a year.
I worked night shift for 9 years and was sooooo miserable,missed out on so much stuff with friends and family. my wife was always complaining cause I was never home at night and days I would wake up really late as well as saw my health deteriorating cause of the no sleep but then switched to day shift and have been on that for 1 year and it’s way better got offered a combo position but I would have to go back to night for another 10-12 years.. I make 270 a week with the hours we’re getting. Everyone I grew up with a so much steps ahead in life. DONT WORK FOR UPS IF YOU NEED MONEY!!!!!! Ups is just for insurance and benefits.
Lmfao. The manager outright tells you this stuff before you even join during orientation.
I aint standing up for UPS, but to give the false sense that the workers didnt know what they was getting in to is a lie.
Worked as a UPS feeder driver for 4 years, paying union dues with no benefits, playing the on call game with false promises. Another trucking company offered me a local non-union 10 hour, 4 day work week with better pay and benefits. I left UPS and never looked backed and had a much better family life.
20 yrs at ups this used to be a good company to work for now management has made it stressful your social life is gone Mon to Fri your a slave for ups you have to request just for an 8 hr day
That dude should move out of California. California is a trash state. Everything is overpriced.
The shit employees have to go through, the experienced ones always get rushed and micro managed, times get staggered at times , the ones that arent very good get catered, drivers at times are bossy or assholes to the graveyard shift people, and sometime part time managers make the area an environment where people arent that cool with eachother or familiar, the employees definitely deserve it
I worked here for one day and left on lunch break Fck that ! For $11/hr too
I’m all for raising the wage, if union employees get a better wage then so does management so I’ll be happy. But with all due respect you can’t make a living at a part time job, nor should you.