UPS contract breach

[Big Beer Belly]

The latest is that UPS will not make the contractual deadline of Dec.20 to hand over the flying due to UPS not wanting to fly TDY out of DAY until the new heavy freight sorts at the existing UPS hubs are finished around the middle of next year. UPS and IPA are currently negotiating a penalty for the contract breach and UPS has stated that they now have a handover date of July 17, 2006. UPS has stated that date is a hard, 100% turnover of flying to the IPA and any breach of that date will be dealt with if needed.

FWIW ... read a few weeks ago (think it was the Dispatch, might have been elsewhere) that UPS has again delayed the hand over till END of Dec '06 ... a full year later than the contract REQUIRES. UPS has publicly agreed this flying is contractually IPA's. It's in the grievance process and the NMB has been informed.

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