Archive for the ‘Employee Abuse’ Category

Update: UPS Pays $254,000 to Fired Whistleblower

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Daniel Peterson of Redwood will collect more than a quarter of a million dollars in damages after the company and Peterson reached a settlement in a lawsuit he filed last year. United Package Smashers previously wrote about the incident here. Peterson, a UPS Mechanic, was fired after he put unsafe ...

UPS Settles Lawsuit Filed by Whistleblower

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Documents recently filed show UPS is taking steps to settle a lawsuit filed by a mechanic for the company who complained about unsafe UPS trucks. The mechanic, having found cracked or rusted frames on at least four UPS trucks, removed inspection certifications for those trucks and was fired four days ...

UPS Driver Sues UPS, Wins

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

UPS Driver Paul Warren, 43, of Rockport, Maine filed a lawsuit against UPS after he was diagnosed with epilepsy. He won a jury verdict against the company back in 2007, now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld the riling. The crux of the issue involves ...

Report: United Parcel Service Discriminating On Basis of Color

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Brown is OK when its being used in the logo, but not when its the color of employee's skin, says one newspaper report coming out of Commerce City, Colorado by BlackNews.com. The news organization which covers items of interest to the black community leveled several charges of discrimination against UPS ...