Want a job??UPS agrees to create 4,000 jobs
ATLANTA (AP) - United Parcel Service has agreed to create 4,000 new full-time jobs this
spring, ending its dispute with the Teamsters union over a 1997 contract. The contract, which
brought an end to the 1997 Teamsters strike against UPS, called for the company create
2,000 full-time jobs each year for five years. But the company said package volume was
badly damaged by the strike, making the job-creation requirement invalid for 1997 and 1998.
In February, an arbitrator ordered UPS to create 2,000 full-time jobs for the first year of the
contract. Now UPS has agreed to create another 2,000 for the second year, according to
papers filed Thursday.