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.

cnbc.com/2023/07/25/ups-teamst

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.

teamster.org/2023/07/weve-chan

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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.

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I'm bad at this but here's a link to my book on how everything -- and I do mean everything -- gets from the factory to our front doors.

We should all be more aware of how this system works. Reporting it was certainly life-changing and worldview-altering for me.

harpercollins.com/products/arr

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@mimsical I really liked this book. Explains a lot and came out at a very opportune time (just as the COVID logistics issues hit).

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