As someone who has written a great deal about UPS (in my book on logistics, no less) I am here to say with some authority that the contract the Teamsters just extracted from the company is a big fucking deal.

That said, I don't know that getting part-time workers a floor of $21 / hr while full-time ones get $49 / hr really accomplishes the goal of equity between the two that was nominally one of the goals of this possible strike.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/25/ups-teamsters-reach-contract-to-avoid-strike-union-says.html

Digging more into the Teamsters / UPS contract, lots of victories in here for drivers.

+6,500 full-time drivers will overnight get rocketed into the $49 / hr pay bracket by finally being classified as ft and not pt.

Definitely a big deal.

https://teamster.org/2023/07/weve-changed-the-game-teamsters-win-historic-ups-contract/

One thing that will always make me sad about logistics tho: No one outside the industry ever pays attention to it until it breaks down.

And yet it is the thing that makes *our entire civilization* possible.