What UPS Doesn't Want You to Know

[no_hypocrisy]

When you think of good middle class jobs, you probably think of UPS. But the shipping giant has a secret.

While full time delivery drivers are the face of UPS, it’s the part-time workers like Cesar Mendoza who are the heart of the $100 billion shipping behemoth. In fact part-timers make up around 60% of the 340,000 UPS workers represented by the Teamsters.

These workers have been ignored for nearly 30 years, but as UPS and the union wrestle over a new contract – with a massive strike looming July 31st – part-time workers are coming out of the shadows to tell their story of what its really like to work for the world’s largest package delivery company.
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[NowISeetheLight]

1. Amazon

It's kind of like Amazon. They have decent jobs, but the working conditions even for FT in their centers is rough. Dodging robots and other crazy stuff. The drivers report having to pee in bottles and stuff because they can't stop at a bathroom.

On days I have Amazon deliveries, I leave a TV tray on the front entry with soda, water, and candy bars on a cooler. I have a sign that "Delivery drivers help yourself and thank you." I see them work so hard.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. I did it for 5 years .it's a tough job loading the package cars.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I heard the warehouses are 120 degrees with

no A/C or fans.

[Phoenix61]

4. Businesses have been doing this for decades!

I worked at Sears in 1980. As full-time workers left they were replaced with part-time workers who weren’t eligible for benefits. They, of course, had no issue making everyone work full-time from Thanksgiving to Christmas.