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UPS plans USD1 billion expansion

Posted by | May 17, 2006 | |

Kentucky’s largest corporate employer, United Parcel Service, will announce today a USD1 billion expansion of its Louisville airport operations that will create thousands of new jobs, Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s office said yesterday.
Brett Hall, a Fletcher spokesman, confirmed the shipping company plans to add more than 4,000 full- and part-time jobs as part of a wide-ranging expansion. Construction of the expanded facility is expected to begin later this year and be completed by 2010. UPS spokesman Mark Giuffre would not confirm the report from Fletcher’s office, but he said UPS will hold a news conference at a company hangar at 11 am today. “We have an announcement tomorrow, but I can’t confirm anything today,” Giuffre said.

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CEO survey names UPS America's top brand

Posted by | May 15, 2006 | |

Shipping giant United Parcel Service has been named the country’s top business brand in the American Brand Excellence Awards 2006. FedEx also was named a top brand. Both Atlanta-based UPS and Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx compete with Plantation-based DHL in the package shipping business. Respondents said they ranked UPS highly for being an industry leader, forward-thinking, easy to use, ethical, popular and a growing company.

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UPS pilot talks again on hold

Posted by | May 12, 2006 | |

A split within union leadership ranks has put contract talks between UPS and its pilots back into an indefinite recess, just as formal bargaining sessions were set to resume in the coming week, said a key union official. Tom Nicholson, president of the Independent Pilots Association, said in a message to members that after spending almost a full day on May 9 with union officials, the senior mediator from the National Mediation Board “concluded that the association is not prepared to enter negotiations at this time.”

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