• Our National Negotiating Committee led by General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall has made progress at the bargaining table.

• Issues important to us are being addressed, such as:

• Harassment, including:

§ Adequate staffing levels and enforcement

§ Strengthening 9.5 language

§ Addressing the use of technology

• SurePost

§ Limiting the use of the U.S. Postal Service

§ Adding protections so more work goes to package drivers

§ Addressing issue of overweight and oversized packages

• Strengthening pensions

• Part-timers

§ More full-time opportunities

§ Increasing the starting wage rate

• The company is going to try to sway you and convince you to accept a contract that is less than what is fair.

• We all need to be united and engaged, or the company will win.

• You should know that the company is coming after your health care. They are going after retiree health care too.

• UPS just put a demand on the table that will force you all to pay for your health care.

• The company wants you to pay up to $90 PER WEEK for your health insurance -- with additional increases of 10 percent per year.

• That’s for both full- and part-time workers.

• For full-timers, that’s $2.25 an hour in the first year. For part-timers guaranteed 17.5 hours a week, that’s $5.14 an hour in the first year.

• By the end of the contract, you would be paying nearly $7,000 more a year, or over $130 a week.

• That’s $3.32 an hour for a full-time worker in the final year of the contract. For part-timers, the cost is $7.53 an hour.

• Over the life of the agreement, it will cost you nearly $30,000.

• For those of you in company plans, you will be paying those increased costs for drastically reduced benefits.

• The company is whining that most Americans pay for their health insurance.

• But we can’t buy into their spin.

• Yes, most Americans pay a portion of their health insurance. But most Americans don’t work for one of the most profitable companies in the world.

• UPS made $4.38 billion in net profits last year. That surpasses their record year of 2007.

• How do you think they got there? You. UPS needs to reward the people who make them profitable.

• We’re not going to roll over.  We are going to show the company that their proposal to take away our health care is unacceptable.

• We’re going to mobilize. There will be a National Day of Action on Thursday, Feb. 21. The IBT is going to send us stickers to wear.

• The company thinks they can get away with attacking our health care.  We won’t let them.

• We’re putting the company on notice that record profits mean a fair contract.