Teamsters Set Sights on Representing UPS Freight Employees

Proven Record of Collective Bargaining, Negotiating

GAFFNEY, S.C., July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UPS Freight employees
in South Carolina need workplace representation by a strong and
track-proven labor union. The Teamsters Union fits the bill and has a
strategy to represent them.

"We know that a fly-by-night group, APWA, is trying to organize the
employees of UPS Freight, but they are only after one thing, employees'
money," said L.D. Fletcher, President of Teamsters Local 509. "APWA doesn't
even have records on file with the Department of Labor. We encourage
workers at UPS Freight to hold on for representation by the Teamsters, the
premier representative of UPS parcel and small package employees in North
America."

The Teamsters represent 200,000 UPS workers across the country and are
currently negotiating a contract for the UPS Freight workers in
Indianapolis that will be a model for the rest of the country.

"We are confident that UPS Freight employees will not be misled by a
group supported by the Right To Work Committee and represented by a
union-busting lawyer. This group has no experienced leadership, no staff
support, no pension plan, no health plan, no collective-bargaining
experience, but makes unlimited, empty promises," said Ken Hall, Director
of the Teamsters Parcel and Small Package Trade Division.

"UPS Freight employees may be frustrated by their long effort to join a
union, but that should not cause them to prematurely select a group that
will not produce on its promises," Hall said.

Teamsters already represent more than 4,000 workers in the state of
South Carolina, including employees of UPS, Yellow, USF Holland, ABF and
Roadway Freight, plus Crown Cork and Seal and twenty other miscellaneous
companies.