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Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

UPS, Thor to Partner on Battery-Electric Class 6 Delivery Truck

UPS Inc. has announced a collaboration with Los Angeles-based Thor Trucks on a battery-powered, Class 6 delivery truck that can drive approximately 100 miles on a single charge.

August 6, 2018
Business, Logistics, Top 100

UPS Surges as Jump in Foreign Sales Defies Rising Trade Tensions

UPS Inc. rose the most in almost seven years as international sales surged and the courier’s ambitious investment plans started to win over investors.

July 26, 2018
Business, Logistics

UPS Begins Smart-Access Delivery in New York City

Your packages are here, and you’re not. It’s all right — they’ll just let themselves in.

July 17, 2018
Business, Top 100

UPS, Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreement for 11,000 Freight Workers

UPS Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract that will cover an estimated 11,000 UPS Freight employees, the package delivery giant and union announced July 13.

July 13, 2018
Business, Top 100

Proposed UPS-Teamsters Pact Reveals Expanded Driver Operations

Details of a tentative new labor deal between UPS Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have begun to emerge, including specifics on expansion of the parcel carrier’s team-driving operations and pay increases for its drivers.

July 12, 2018
Business, Logistics, TCA

UPS Signs Lease for Million-Square-Foot Pennsylvania Warehouse

What can brown do for you? Apparently, it can fill a 1 million-square-foot warehouse along Route 33 in Palmer Township, Pa.

July 10, 2018
Government, Business, Logistics

FedEx, UPS Say Local Sick-Pay Laws Don’t Apply to Them

Fed up with state and local laws that require private employers to offer paid sick days, the airlines and railroads have filed suit, claiming that the interstate nature of their businesses should make them exempt.

June 21, 2018
Government, Business, Top 100

UPS, Teamsters Resume Contract Talks as Threat of Strike Looms

The latest round of face-to-face labor negotiations between UPS Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was slated for the week of June 18, with the threat of a strike looming over the talks if no agreement can be reached before the current five-year contract expires Aug. 1.

June 20, 2018
Government, Business, Logistics

NLRB Rules UPS Illegally Insisted Teamsters Proposal Be Written in English

UPS Supply Chain Solutions Inc. illegally insisted that a Teamsters union local in Puerto Rico translate its proposal for a collective bargaining agreement from Spanish to English, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

June 19, 2018
Government, Business, Logistics

UPS Says New Tax Law Creates ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Game

U.S. multinationals face a “tricky situation†in trying to plot a tax strategy around the new base erosion and anti-abuse tax (BEAT) in the 2017 U.S. tax law, a UPS official said.

June 14, 2018