An Administrative Law Judge slapped down UPS Healthcare’s latest legal shenanigans and ordered them to begin bargaining with Teamsters Local 439.

Stockton UPS Healthcare workers are the first in the nation to join the Teamsters. The first bargaining date is September 30.

The Labor Board ordered the UPS Supply Chain Solutions company to post a notice via email and text to all members that they will comply with the law and respect members’ rights to bargain.

Why Organizing UPS Healthcare matters

UPS CEO Carol Tomé is sizing down UPS’ overall volume and trying to win new contracts in specialty logistics like Healthcare.

Part of the strategy is to use non-union segments of UPS to avoid paying Teamster wages and benefits.

UPS Healthcare is one of the many companies like Roadie and Happy Returns operating under their non-union “UPS Supply Chain Solutions” business.

UPS Healthcare warehouses like the one in Stockton handle medical equipment, medications, and samples. Some of these materials require special temperature-control storage.

At the end of the day, it’s UPS workers handling packages—and they should all be Teamsters.

Daniel Valdez, a Local 439 UPS Healthcare worker who helped lead the organizing drive in Stockton and is now a shop steward, says it’s obvious—“We should get the wages and benefits that other UPS Teamsters get.”

Bargaining to Organize in 2028

When a group of UPS admins and specialists joined the Teamsters in 2024, they bargained a card-check neutrality agreement for their brothers and sisters across the country. At this point, more than 1,000 have joined.

Teamsters can beat back Carol Tomé’s union-busting at the bargaining table in 2028 by fighting for card-check for workers at UPS Supply Chain Solutions subsidiaries.

It's called bargaining to organize and it needs to be a big part of our union's strategy to defend Teamster jobs.