Our Teamster contract at UPS prohibits the company from reducing overtime opportunities for RPCDs during peak season, but there’s an important catch. The company can reduce overtime for RPCDs who are on the 9.5 list as of September 1 under Article 26.

If you rely on your overtime and want to protect your right to file a grievance if UPS reduces it during peak season, then you can use the add/cut form to get off the 9.5 list by the deadline. The downside is that you will lose your 9.5 rights and penalty pay from September 1 until the start of peak. 

Drivers who want to take this option should submit the add/cut form without delay. Article 37 requires one week notice for changes to the 9.5 list. 

Package drivers who rely on overtime during peak season can use the add/cut form to get off the 9.5 list. To get off the 9.5 list by the September 1 deadline, drivers should submit the add/cut form by Monday, August 26.

Click here to download the add/cut form.

The relevant contract language is in the last paragraph of Article 26, Section 1 of the National Master Agreement: “In no event shall the implementation of this Section serve to diminish the overtime opportunities for RPCDs not using the protections of Article 37, Section 1(c) as of September 1st of that year, or alter bid delivery area routes for RPCDs.”