UPS Inc. is expecting slight delays in package deliveries after a surge in e-commerce sales swamped its network in the days after Thanksgiving.
December 5, 2017BusinessTCA
UPS Buys Company to Build Customs Brokerage Business
UPS announced it is acquiring trade management firm Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services to build the shipping giant’s customs brokerage business.
December 5, 2017BusinessTechnology
UPS, Coyote Join Blockchain in Trucking Alliance
UPS Inc. announced Nov. 7 it has joined the Blockchain in Trucking Alliance to assist in creating industry standards and protocols to enable blockchain platforms to operate together with established technologies.
November 7, 2017GovernmentBusiness
N.Y. Teamsters Hoping UPS Can Secure Loans to Shore Up Pension Fund
ALBANY, N.Y. — October is the first month thousands of retired upstate New York Teamsters will feel the hit from a 29% cut in their monthly pension checks.
October 30, 2017BusinessLogisticsTCA
UPS Starting Negotiations on Massive Teamsters Contracts
UPS says it has started contract talks with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on new collective bargaining agreements covering 250,000 workers.
October 10, 2017BusinessLogistics
UPS to Open Kansas Package Facility, Hire More Than 2,100 Locally
UPS will open a new package-handling facility in Edgerton, Kan., in November and will hire more than 2,100 seasonal and permanent workers in the area, the company announced Sept. 20.
September 22, 2017GovernmentBusinessTCA
Kentucky Town May Ban Commercial Delivery on Golf Carts
Daviess County, Ky., Judge-Executive Al Mattingly says he will introduce an ordinance to Fiscal Court next month that would prohibit the commercial use of golf carts or other low-speed utility vehicles for delivering packages or mail.
September 22, 2017BusinessLogistics
UPS Hiring 95,000 Seasonal Workers to Keep Up With Holiday Surge
UPS Inc. expects to hire 95,000 temporary workers this year to help it with the annual holiday surge, when daily shipments rise by more than half.
September 20, 2017Business
O’Brien Fired as Top Teamsters Negotiator in UPS Contract Talks
Teamsters President James Hoffa has fired Sean O’Brien as the top negotiator on behalf of UPS Inc. and its UPS Freight employees after only six months, prompting the ousted director to write a blistering rebuke to the union leader.
September 12, 2017Business
UPS Makes Dow Jones’ Sustainability World Index For Fifth Year
UPS Inc. has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the fifth year and to the North America segment for the 13th straight year, the Atlanta-based parcel carrier said Sept. 7.
September 11, 2017