Labor

Following the formal ratification of the new five-year contract between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters late last month, a high-level UPS executive provided an overview of the deal, from the company’s perspective, on an analyst call yesterday.

ILWU said that 75% of its membership voted in favor of approving the new contract. And it added that this new agreement protects good-paying jobs in 29 West Coast port communities, maintains health benefits, and improves wages, pensions, and safety protections.

The bankruptcy of trucking company Yellow has attracted considerable attention since the story broke early this month. But an aspect of the story that is under-reported is how the demise of a 99-year-old trucker and the loss of an estimated 30,000 jobs offers essential lessons about the transition to the workplace of the future.

United Parcel Service (UPS), celebrating a new tentative five-year labor contract covering 340,000 members at the Teamsters union, says it expects the new deal will be ratified by rank-and-file workers within two weeks.

Following a tentative agreement made between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on July 25, the Teamsters said yesterday that Teamsters local unions voted by a nearly unanimous 161-1 vote in favor of endorsing the tentative agreement and recommend its passage by full membership, for the 340,000 full- and part-time UPS Teamsters members.

Yellow, which had $5.24 million revenue in the $58 billion less-than-truckload (LTL) market, told the union it was formally declaring bankruptcy.

As freight transportation, logistics, and supply chain stakeholders (likely) breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday, following the new five-year tentative agreement reached yesterday between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, there has been no shortage of opinions and views on how this agreement, assuming it is ratified by UPS Teamsters members next month, will impact shippers, especially as it relates to pricing.

With only a few days remaining until the July 31 deadline, the contentious and on-again, off-again labor negotiations between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached an amicable outcome today, in the form of a new five-year tentative agreement.

Yellow Corp. is withholding approximately $50 million in pension contributions to the Teamsters Central States pension fund because it says Teamsters’ leadership is causing “obstruction” to the company’s major change of operations. That is causing what Yellow calls a “liquidity crisis” and the need to implement cash-conservation measures, including its benefit funding deferral request.

The on-again, off-again tone of the ongoing, and fairly contentious, labor negotiation talks between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) took a positive step. That step was UPS saying that it will return to the negotiating table next week.

With the possibility of Nashville-based Yellow Corporation, the third-largest United States less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier, with about 8% of the national market, going on strike ostensibly gaining traction, the company yesterday addressed comments made by the Teamsters yesterday about the company’s employee pensions through the Central States Pension Fund.

Taking steps to ensure business operations remain intact, should its Teamsters members go on strike, when the current labor agreement expires, at the end of July, Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider said late last week that it making preparations, in the event of a strike.

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Yellow Corp., after decades of losses in excess of $1 billion and debt of $1.3 billion, received a little late financial breathing room as the venerable 99-year-old trucking company tries to survive.

For May, the most recent month for which data is available, Port Tracker reported that import volumes, for the ports covered in the report, came in at 1.93 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), marking an 8.5% gain over April and a 19.3% annual decline.