‘We’re ready to strike’: UPS workers and Teamsters prepare for contract fight

Employees are pushing for better overtime protections, improved pay for part-time employees and heat protections

For eight years, Rob Becker worked as a delivery driver for UPS in Queens, New York. About five years ago, he was terminated. He got involved in his local union, Teamsters Local 804, and fought, successfully, to get reinstated.

While pushing for changes and collecting signatures in recent months at UPS as the Teamsters prepare for a new union contract fight across at the company in 2023, Becker, an alternate union steward, was again fired from his job.