Category: UPS News

Two security firms namely Malwarebytes and Cisco warn that UPS (United Parcel Service)-related unsolicited electronic mails are presently hitting inboxes. These spam mails spoofing the globally famous package handing over company i.e. UPS actually represent one malware dissemination scam, published softpedia.com dated April 11, 2014.

Showing a header “UPS Exception Notification, Tracking Number 1Z522A9A6892487822,” the fake e-mails inform the recipient that because the shipper wanted, it was decided that the said merchandize would be delivered at some newly scheduled time.

The American workforce might want to pay attention to all those brown trucks full of cardboard boxes. UPS is using technology in ways that may soon be common throughout the economy.

On the surface, UPS trucks look the same as they did more than 20 years ago, when Bill Earle started driving for the company in rural Pennsylvania.

But underneath the surface, Earle says, the job has changed a lot. The thing you sign your name on when the UPS guy gives you a package used to be a piece of paper. Now it’s a computer that tells Earle everything he needs to know.

On Monday morning, Rep. Derek Kilmer spent time with a UPS employee during his ‘Kilmer at Your Company’ day. Kilmer spends time talking with local business owners and employees during the event to get a feel for daily work in his constituents’ shoes.

“The 250 UPS employees involved in the walkout who were terminated for their actions will have their terminations reduced to a two week suspension without pay for each participant,” UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told Business Insider in an email. “UPS has chosen to settle the matter in order to return to normal operations at the site.”

As part of the agreement, the local branch of the union representing the workers, Teamsters Local 804, will compensate UPS for damages associated with the Feb. 26 walkout, Gaut said.

Union officials also acknowledged in the agreement that the strike was “illegal and unauthorized and will undertake other actions within the bargaining unit to correct the situation,” he said.

The union disputes that claim.

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa and General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall announced today that Hall and International Vice President Sean O’Brien met with Teamsters at the UPS Maspeth facility last night. Today, Hall and O’Brien met with Local 804 officials and UPS management to resolve the situation. The parties have come to a settlement regarding the termination of 250 Local 804 members that occurred after a job action that took place in February.