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Known in the industry as "Big Brown," United Parcel Service of America Inc. (UPS) is the world's largest package-delivery company. The Atlanta-based business delivered more than three billion items throughout more than 200 countries and territories in 1995. In addition to its fleet of 147,000 vehicles, the company operates one of the world's top ten airlines by virtue of its more than 500 company-owned and chartered aircraft. Under the direction of CEO Kent C. Nelson in the late 1980s and early 1990s, UPS strove mightily to maintain its dominant position in parcel post and insinuate itself throughout the world.
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It still relies on chocolate-colored trucks, but United Parcel Service (UPS) is more than a plain-vanilla delivery business. The world's largest package-delivery company, UPS transports some 15.6 million packages and documents per business day throughout the US and to more than 200 countries and territories. Its delivery operations use a fleet of about 101,000 motor vehicles and more than 600 aircraft. The company offers services such as logistics and freight forwarding through UPS Supply Chain Solutions, and it has expanded into trucking by buying Overnite (now UPS Ground Freight).
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United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) issued a press release on October 1, 2007 stating that UPS has reached a new tentative labor agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for unionized employees engaged in UPS' package business. UPS stated that in its new labor agreement with the Teamsters, UPS has agreed to withdraw from the Central States Plan and make a cash payment of $6.1 billion to the plan. UPS is a major participant in this multi-employer pension plan in addition to certain YRC Worldwide subsidiaries and over 3,000 other employers. This new labor agreement would be effective upon the affected UPS Teamster employees ratifying the agreement.
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On September 30, 2007, United Parcel Service, Inc. ("UPS") announced it had reached a tentative agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on a new five-year contract covering approximately 240,000 full- and part-time package employees in the United States. The tentative contract, which must be presented to UPS Teamster-represented workers for ratification, was negotiated in advance of the current contract's expiration on July 31, 2008. Upon ratification, most provisions of the new agreement will take effect on August 1, 2008.
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United Parcel Service announced that the class action involves claims of intentional misrepresentation and multiple statutory violations relating to UPS' conversion of more than 3400 Mail Boxes Etc. franchises to the UPS store. The suit contends that UPS misled franchisees into believing that the UPS Store model would be more profitable for the franchisees. Instead the suit alleges that the conversion was for the purpose of moving profits to UPS. The class action seeks rescission of the conversion and monetary damages
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United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Since 2005, its operations include logistics and other transportation-related areas. It has been headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA since 1991; headquarters had previously been located in New York City from 1930 until 1975 when it moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.
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