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Union seeks election for UPS workers

Posted by | Jun 25, 2007 | |

A national United Parcel Service Inc. employee union debate saw local action in Kansas City on last Monday 25th.

Officers of the Association of Parcel Workers of America submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board’s regional office in Overland Park to have an election deciding who should represent the workers. For a petition to be valid, more than 30 percent of work site employees must have requested it.

The Kansas City UPS freight terminal has nearly 400 workers.

Leaders of the APWA movement, both tractor-trailer drivers for UPS, say the current representative group, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has mismanaged pension money, causing deficiencies and “severe” cuts in 2004.

The 0group hopes to have all voting completed by the end of the year, which means a series of regional votes for freight groups and one national vote for package groups. The group began collecting employee signatures on Feb. 26 to authorize the vote.

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Atlanta Legal Aid welcomes UPS Fellow

Posted by | Jun 25, 2007 | |

Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., today announced it had welcomed its first corporate-sponsored appointee to the Legal Aid Fellowship Program, an attorney from UPS who has begun a four-month assignment.

The appointment of Ryan Swift, a lawyer at UPS’s headquarters here, is a first not only for Atlanta but also for the nation. More than 100 law firms around the country participate in various fellowship programs with their local legal services agencies, but no corporation has ever assigned one of its attorneys to such long-term assistance.

Swift began reporting last week to Atlanta Legal Aid’s Cobb County office, where he will work for the next four months while continuing to receive his salary and benefits from UPS.

The Fellowship Program of Atlanta Legal Aid immerses young lawyers in a variety of cases and crises, giving them valuable opportunities for court time and for responsibilities that only come much later at a large firm or corporation. Since 1995, 13 Atlanta law firms have sent 39 associates to serve as Fellows at one of Legal Aid’s five offices. Participating firms gain experience for their associates; Legal Aid gains needed support for the work it does.

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Postal workers protest outsourcing

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Two labor unions are planning pickets at 16 locations across Florida, including Jacksonville, to protest the U.S. Postal Service’s outsourcing policies.

Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association chose June 27 to demonstrate against the policies that the unions say will diminish service to postal customers and endanger the future viability of the Postal Service.

The pickets will be held outside post offices or in neighborhoods where mail is currently being delivered by non-postal employees, Judy Willoughby, NALC national business agent, said in a release.

Pickets will be at the main Jacksonville post office on Kings Road from 4 to 6 p.m.

NALC’s effort to fight privatization of mail delivery has gained support in Congress. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has introduced The Mail Delivery Protection Act of 2007 (S. 1457) to outlaw most outsourcing, and in the House of Representatives, Rep. Albio Sires, D-N.J., has authored H. Res. 282, which would condemn the practice and urge the Postal Service to halt the practice immediately.

The NALC represents 298,000 active and retired letter carriers of the U.S. Postal Service in all 50 states and United States jurisdictions.

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PinPoint to develop new Houston FedEx freight facility

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Developer PinPoint Commercial has been selected to develop and lease a 243-door, 153,853-square-foot, cross dock freight facility in Northwest Houston to FedEx Freight East Inc. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

The terminal will be located at Houston-based PinPoint Commercial’s 115-acre Satsuma Station Industrial Park near the intersection of Highway 290 and FM 1960, where it will occupy more than one-third of the total acreage.

According to PinPoint Commercial, the design for the terminal already has been expanded by about one-third from the original plan because of the estimated growth in freight needs of the Houston area and the need for a presence in Northwest Houston.

It is believed it will be the largest hub in the FedEx Freight network. The project is expected to open by the second quarter of 2008.

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USPS certifies Melissa Data with NCOALink

Posted by | Jun 21, 2007 | |

Data quality solutions provider Melissa Data is now licensed as an NCOALink Full Service Provider by the U.S. Postal Service.

USPS’s NCOALink identifies customers who have moved, improving mail deliverability and reducing the costs and time required to forward mail. NCOALink fulfills the Move Update requirement for First-Class Mail automation and presort discounts. The Move Update requirement also will become mandatory to receive automation and presort discounts for Standard Mail in 2008. The USPS estimates that approximately 18- to 20-percent of households and businesses in America move each year. Businesses can save thousands of dollars on wasted, undeliverable mail by using NCOALink to find relocated individuals, families, and businesses.

As one of only a handful of full service providers, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA-based Melissa Data can update third-party mailing lists and customer files against the full 48-month change-of-address file containing more than 160 million change-of-address records, as opposed to the 18-month file provided to Limited Service Provider licensees.

In addition to offering full 48-month NCOALink processing, it is the first provider to offer a 24-month processing service for the price of their 18-month service – with very low minimums so customers can affordably update small files.

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