Rights

UPS Teamsters contract guides about rights, every claim cited to the contract.

• What Is a Cardinal Infraction at UPS? Discharge Without a Warning Letter — A UPS Teamsters guide to cardinal infractions — the serious offenses that can get you fired on the first offense with no warning letter, and your rights.
• Heat Safety at UPS: How to Stay Safe and Report Heat Struggles — How UPS Teamsters can stay safe in extreme heat, use their contract's safety-and-health machinery, and formally report heat problems to UPS.
• Harassment & Over-Supervision at UPS: Your Article 37 Rights — What UPS Teamsters can do about harassment, intimidation, coercion and over-supervision under Article 37 — penalties, the National Committee, and how to file.
• My UPS Supervisor Threatened to Fire Me — What Are My Rights? — A UPS Teamster's guide to threats of firing: your just-cause protections, the warning-notice rules, NLRA rights, and the steps to take right now.
• UPS Holidays & "Non-Operating" Days: What Counts and What Your Contract Says — What UPS treats as "non-operational" days and which days are recognized holidays — what the National Master Agreement covers vs. shipping-side definitions.
• Forced to Work Through Lunch at UPS? Your Meal Period Rights — What your UPS Teamsters contract says about meal and rest periods, when lunch must be taken, and what to do if you're forced to skip or work through your break.
• My Supervisor Is Conspiring Against Me: A UPS Teamster's Playbook — Think a UPS supervisor is targeting you? Learn your contract protections — just cause, disparate treatment, grievances — and the steps to fight back.
• What Counts as Just Cause for Discipline at UPS? — How "just cause" protects UPS Teamsters from unfair discipline — the 7 tests, the contract rules on warning notices, and what to do when you're written up.
• Full-Time Package Car Driver at UPS: Pay, Hours & Your Rights — What full-time package car drivers need to know about UPS workdays, overtime, 8-hour requests, bidding into combo jobs, training and pay.
• How Do I Take FMLA Leave as a UPS Teamster? — A plain-language guide to FMLA leave for UPS Teamsters: who qualifies, how much leave you get, the notice rules, and how it works under your contract.
• What's the UPS Teamsters Attendance Policy? What Your Contract Says — How attendance and discipline work for UPS Teamsters: just cause, progressive discipline, the warning-letter rules, and what your contract actually covers.