Freight workers in the US ratify first ever contract with UPS

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7 October 2007

Workers at UPS Freight (formerly Overnite Transportation) in the US city of Indianapolis overwhelmingly ratified their first contract ever today, by a 107-1 vote. This agreement will improve wages, benefits and working conditions and will serve as a model to organise thousands of other UPS Freight employees nationwide, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced.

"For more than 50 years, workers at UPS Freight's predecessor, Overnite, fought to win a Teamster contract," Hoffa said. "Today the union fulfilled its promise that we would not quit until workers achieved economic justice. Now we will help thousands of other UPS Freight employees win the same protections and guarantees on the job that the Indianapolis workers have. After UPS Freight workers join the Teamster family, we will focus our future organising efforts at FedEx Freight."

The Teamsters and UPS Freight reached a tentative agreement on 30 September. The contract, which covers 125 dockworkers and drivers who belong to Teamsters Local 135 in Indianapolis, also provides employees with the protections of a grievance procedure to fight unfair management decisions, something workers have fought hard to achieve.

Download highlights of the agreement in a PDF version.

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