UPS Union Wants to Revisit Ratified Labor Agreement

Oct. 17, 2018, 10:15 AM UTC

United Parcel Service Inc.'s union wants to revisit parts of a national contract covering 250,000 workers that it ratified on Oct. 5, an International Brotherhood of Teamsters spokeswoman confirmed to Bloomberg Law.

The five-year contract was voted down by 54.2 percent of union members but turnout wasn’t high enough to reject the contract, according to the Teamsters.

Any contract with fewer than half of the bargaining unit votes must be rejected by a two-thirds margin or it’s considered ratified, Teamsters spokeswoman Kara Deniz wrote in an email to Bloomberg Law. The union also ...

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