UPS Defeats Female Workers’ Class Systemic Bias Lawsuit, For Now

Three women who work at UPS’s Oakland, Calif., hub will have to try again with their proposed class lawsuit alleging female employees are subjected to an “old boy’s club” culture, paid less for equal work, and encounter obstacles to promotion and other bias.

Galena Goins, Sonia Lopez, and Terry A. Jones-Jackson’s first amended complaint in the November 2021 suit “lacks clarity and is rife with conclusory statements,” the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Tuesday in granting United Parcel Service Inc.'s motion to dismiss.

UPS sought a dismissal with prejudice, but leave to amend the suit ...