Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement include:
- Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
- Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
- General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract — and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.
- Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
- Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.
- New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
- All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
- Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
- All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
- No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
- UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
- The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.
- More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement — more than any other time in Teamsters history — and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.
https://teamster.org/2023/07/weve-changed-the-game-teamsters-win-historic-ups-contract/
- Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
- Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
- General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract — and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.
- Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
- Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.
- New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
- All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
- Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
- All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
- No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
- UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
- The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.
- More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement — more than any other time in Teamsters history — and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.
https://teamster.org/2023/07/weve-changed-the-game-teamsters-win-historic-ups-contract/
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,00
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La carenza di personale sanitario in Italia è diventata un tema di dibattito, soprattutto a causa della pandemia da Covid-19. La situazione ha evidenziato la necessità di adottare soluzioni pragmatiche per affrontare il problema. Una delle chiavi per risolvere questa carenza è investire nell'attrattività delle professioni sanitarie, in particolare quella infermieristica.
Il Servizio sanitario nazionale sta affrontando un crescente bisogno di assistenza territoriale, poiché sempre più persone sono affette da patologie croniche. Questo richiede nuovi investimenti e la formazione di nuovo personale, con un'attenzione particolare alle professioni sanitarie, come gli infermieri. Alcuni compiti originariamente svolti dai medici sono stati spostati verso altri professionisti sanitari, come parte di uno skill-mix change, rendendo il loro contributo ancora più importante.
Un aspetto preoccupante riguarda il rapporto tra il numero di infermieri e quello dei medici nel sistema sanitario italiano. Questo rapporto è più basso rispetto ad altri paesi occidentali, il che sottolinea la necessità di formare più infermieri rispetto al passato e in proporzione al numero di medici formati.
Tuttavia, i dati mostrano che il numero di posti a bando per la formazione di medici supera spesso quelli destinati alla professione infermieristica. Questa situazione si traduce in uno squilibrio e rende difficile raggiungere un ricambio generazionale equilibrato per gli infermieri.
In conclusione, è fondamentale adottare misure concrete per affrontare la carenza di personale sanitario in modo efficace. Ciò implica ripensare i rapporti interprofessionali, valorizzare il lavoro in team e investire nell'attrattività delle professioni sanitarie, soprattutto quella infermieristica. Solo così potremo garantire una sanità efficiente e adeguata alle sfide del futuro.
https://lavoce.info/archives/101692/personale-sanitario-dove-il-problema/
La carenza di personale sanitario in Italia è diventata un tema di dibattito, soprattutto a causa della pandemia da Covid-19. La situazione ha evidenziato la necessità di adottare soluzioni pragmatiche per affrontare il problema. Una delle chiavi per risolvere questa carenza è investire nell'attrattività delle professioni sanitarie, in particolare quella infermieristica.
Il Servizio sanitario nazionale sta affrontando un crescente bisogno di assistenza territoriale, poiché sempre più persone sono affette da patologie croniche. Questo richiede nuovi investimenti e la formazione di nuovo personale, con un'attenzione particolare alle professioni sanitarie, come gli infermieri. Alcuni compiti originariamente svolti dai medici sono stati spostati verso altri professionisti sanitari, come parte di uno skill-mix change, rendendo il loro contributo ancora più importante.
Un aspetto preoccupante riguarda il rapporto tra il numero di infermieri e quello dei medici nel sistema sanitario italiano. Questo rapporto è più basso rispetto ad altri paesi occidentali, il che sottolinea la necessità di formare più infermieri rispetto al passato e in proporzione al numero di medici formati.
Tuttavia, i dati mostrano che il numero di posti a bando per la formazione di medici supera spesso quelli destinati alla professione infermieristica. Questa situazione si traduce in uno squilibrio e rende difficile raggiungere un ricambio generazionale equilibrato per gli infermieri.
In conclusione, è fondamentale adottare misure concrete per affrontare la carenza di personale sanitario in modo efficace. Ciò implica ripensare i rapporti interprofessionali, valorizzare il lavoro in team e investire nell'attrattività delle professioni sanitarie, soprattutto quella infermieristica. Solo così potremo garantire una sanità efficiente e adeguata alle sfide del futuro.
https://lavoce.info/archives/101692/personale-sanitario-dove-il-problema/
Lavoce.info
Personale sanitario: dov’è il problema | C. Buongiorno Sottoriva e M. Del Vecchio
Per risolvere il problema della carenza di personale sanitario servono soluzioni pragmatiche. Occorre ripensare i rapporti interprofessionali e bisogna investire sull’attrattività delle professioni sanitarie, quella infermieristica in particolare.
Harvey Ussery, pioneer farmer and author of the newly-updated seminal manual, The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, has set out what he calls “an all-natural approach” to raising chickens for home and market growers. He has spent his life developing a truly viable poultry model that sequesters carbon and is hygienic, neighbour-friendly and food-secure; like him, many smaller-scale poultry producers and farmers throughout the UK have developed agroecological chicken systems that work for them.
https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/news-views/do-chickens-deserve-better/
https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/news-views/do-chickens-deserve-better/
Sustainable Food Trust
Do chickens deserve better? - Sustainable Food Trust
Chicken accounts for more than half of all the meat we eat in the UK, so then why do we place such little value on it? Food journalist Joanna Blythman explores the true cost of cheap chicken to our health and the planet. Chicken accounts for more than half…