UPS shooting update

A couple of comments made on the Reuters article. here

CEO getting all the gold and lower management getting all the lead.what a trade off? if CEO share the gold with workers,this wouldn’t happen.demanding more work and diving less pay brings trouble.

Abney & Davis lining their own pockets as the expense of workers.

This proves there is an art and science to management, and it’s not just “common sense”. Management is more about people than spreadsheets or schedules or COGS, and that’s true for Supervisor through Executive levels. Someone at UPS needs to do a root cause analysis immediately to see if the firing was unjust, or if the firing decision was communicated to the ex-employee inappropriately or unprofessionally, causing the employee such distress that he felt he had no other way out than a murder-suicide at his hands. The entire management chain needs to examine and learn from what they did wrong this time, so they don’t do it again any time in the future to any other employee.

Root cause analysis, I can be that there's no blame attached to the Management


No other updates on the story, that I can find. 

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Abney, email address

It would seem that dpabney@ups.com is the correct email address for the big boss.
Don't expect a reply though.
Seems he's not interested in fraud either. Well he is, but only in profiting from it.
Not a real surprise as he worked under the previous chief fraudster Davis.



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UPS on UPS Alabama shooting

UPS Statement About Shooting Incident Near Birmingham, AL

Atlanta, September 24, 2014

Jefferson County (Ala.) Medical Examiner's Office Confirms Identities

UPS has been advised by the Jefferson County (Ala.) Medical Examiner's Office that it has identified the three people killed during a shooting incident at a UPS facility outside Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 23. In addition, we can confirm the families have been notified.

Doug Hutcheson, a resident of Odenville, Ala., was a driver supervisor and joined the company in 1999. He was 33 years old.

Brian Callans, a resident of Birmingham, Ala., was a business manager and worked for UPS for 26 years. He was 46 years old.

Kerry Tesney, 45, of Trussville, Ala., a recently terminated UPS driver with 21 years of employment, also died.

UPS sends our condolences to the families of these three individuals. They have asked for privacy during this difficult time.

The safety and well-being of our employees is our primary focus. We are providing the families of the victims, along with the employees who work in this facility, with counseling and support.

UPS continues to cooperate with authorities in the investigation.

UPS pressroom aka cover up centre

UPS Alabama shooting.

From Fox

Kerry Tesney, 45, is from Trussville, Alabama. Authorities say he had a wife and two children. UPS fired Tesney on Monday, according to police.

The shooter, a white male in his late 40s, was wearing a UPS uniform.

Investigators say Tesney went on a rampage at his former employer and killed two people."We have security measures that address many situations," said UPS spokesman Steve Gaut. "We'll have to continue to investigate what happened and how they made it to the point they did."



Security measures? How did an ex-employee get in? He should not have had any UPS identification.
If he was in browns, wasn't anyone suspicious that he would turn up wearing his uniform?

Why would he want to kill 2 supervisors?
Answers will probably be found swept under the carpet.

UPS Fact File. The big Brown Lie

Found this on the "big brown lie" sometime ago but had forgotten where I'd filed it.

The website http://www.thebigbrownlie.com/ doesn't seem to be active any more.

There are some recognisable themes in there

I'm guessing this maybe a good 10 years old

UPS FACT PAGE

Data compiled from Department of Labor, various media stories, Aaron Freeman, and the AFL/CIO Website

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INJURY STATISTIC'S

• On average one UPS employee is killed on the job each month
• Over 60,000 UPS employees are injured on the job annually
•  Thousands of injuries go unreported due to threats and intimidation from UPS management
•  According to the National Academy of Science: The national injury rate is 8 injuries per 100 employees, or 8:100
• UPS’s injury rate is 15:100 employees
• Into the 90’s UPS was the highest fined company by OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) with over 1300 citations, 1/3 of those were “serious” in nature.
• In 1994 in order to avoid a contempt ruling in Federal court UPS was fined $3 million for their repeated failure to comply with the Government mandated Hazardous Material Spill Program
• According to a Cornell University study-Former UPS workers missed an average of 275 workdays A PIECE due to injuries sustained at UPS
• UPS pays out over $1 million A DAY in worker compensation claims
• OSHA receives more complaints from workers at UPS than from any other company
• UPS has an occupational injury rate 3 times that of the transportation industry
• UPS has one of the worst HAZMAT violation records in the industry
• Young, new workers are becoming disabled for life at an alarming rate from injuries received while at UPS
• UPS drivers lead the industry in alcohol and substance abuse associated with stress at UPS
• UPS drivers rank in the top 9% of most stressed adults in the nation
• 1.8 million worker suffer workplace injuries, 600,000 of those injuries are “ergonomic related” such as repetitive motion, and carpal tunnel syndrome
• Between 1972 and 1996 UPS spent over $4.6 million for fines levied against them
• 85% of the injuries at UPS are “ergonomic” in nature
• UPS raised the weight limit of its packages from 50lbs to 150lbs, which injury rates increased as well
• The average value of a UPS workers life is $5,000
•  In Chicago a brand new employee (described as barely more than a "boy") serving his 30 day probation died of heat exhaustion while unloading a truck during one of Chicago's heat waves. He was required to meet the standard of unloading 2000 packages per hour in order to make probation. OSHA fined the company $5000.
• Packages presently can weigh up to 150 pounds each. The company has refused to bargain over weight limits, reserving the right to require drivers to unload alone packages that could run 200 or more pounds. When challenged, management told the union that if the driver needed help, s/he could ask the customer to assist. Young, inexperienced workers are becoming disabled for life from injuries received at UPS, often their first real job.
• UPS has consistently stonewalled union demands for appropriate safety equipment such as decent seatbelts, seats, and tires, and has refused to retire from their fleet trucks that have only single cylinder brakes.
• The EEOC has filed a class action suit against UPS for violating the rights of disabled workers. Workers who suffer eye injury are entitled to be transferred to other jobs, but UPS has refused or failed to accommodate their disabilities.
• UPS has a rate of occupational injury that is three times that of the transportation industry.
• The National Coalition on Ergonomics, an employer association has worked to prevent OSHA from adopting standards intended to cut down on repetitive motion injuries. Among the main corporate opponents of sensible repetitive motion injury regulations has been UPS, which is among the leading violators of OSHA regulations.
• The average penalty for a serious violation is $709, according to "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect," a new report by the AFL-CIO.

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Political influence vs. safety statistics:

• Ergonomic injuries account for all serious workplace injuries and cost society approximately $50 billion each year
• Ergonomic injuries affect women the most who make up less than 50% of the workforce, but account for 1/3 of the total workplace injuries
• UPS facility in Lenexa Kansas was fined $140,000 by OSHA for deplorable working conditions that were resulting in an injury rate of almost 20:100 employees, thus began UPS’s venture into the ergonomic arena battling OSHA, and the public interest
• UPS sued OSHA in Federal court over the “Lenexa Kansas citation”, and the Federal judge ruled that since no “ergonomic” standard existed for workers all citations were dropped, and OSHA began working on ergonomic standards
• Head of OSHA during President Bush (’92), Dorothy Strunk, drafted language protecting American workers from ergonomic injuries, and begun to fight and force companies to incorporate these provisions to protect American workers from further ergonomic injuries
• UPS realized the monetary cost to their business would cost their shareholders $3 billion, they headed the 300 company members of the National Association of Manufacturers Coalition on Ergonomics to battle OSHA, and the “ergonomic issue”
•  40 UPS drivers sued UPS in Federal court for ergonomic injuries from the design flawed computer clipboard
• UPS joins ranks with US Congressman (R) Peter Hoekstra, with a former U.S Attorney named Joseph DiGenova who drafted the ergonomic defeating language in their successful attempt to destroy the Ergonomics Bill
• 1995, UPS’s PAC held 55 “meet and greet” sessions with members of Congress, spending about $450 per member, and then direct contributions of $4,550-just under the legal $5,000 limit
• 16 out of 17 members on the House Appropriations Subcommittee looking at these rules who attended UPS’s “meet and greet” event voted for UPS
• (R) U.S Congressman Ballenger oversaw OSHA-drafted a bill to reduce OSHA’s power and remove any enforcement ability
• UPS donated $24,000 to Ballenger (ooohhh look that's him just there, above)
• (R) U.S Congressman Bonilla-drafted appropriations rider to prevent OSHA from collecting data from employees on ergonomic injuries
• UPS donated $14,250 to Bonilla (ooohhh look that's him just there as well, above)
• UPS sued OSHA again in Federal court to prevent OSHA from collecting further ergonomic injury data, which 85% of UPS workplace injuries are ergonomic in nature
• From 1991 to 1996 UPS contributed over $7.6 million to members of Congress
• 1993-94 UPS’s PAC was the largest contributor to congressional candidates-$2.65 million
• 1995-96 UPS gave over $575,000 to supporters of “Ballenger Bill”
• UPS handed out more than $3 million for the 2000 elections with 73% going to Republicans
• Teamster General President James P. Hoffa joins UPS in refusing to address skyrocketing injury rates (refer to news article enclosed)
•  Teamster General President James P. Hoffa appoints OSHA killer hired gun, Joseph DiGenova, to the IRB overseeing union corruption, which the position is paid for by members dues money to the tune of $100,000 a year plus a union retirement
• UPS was found to have illegally contributed to James P. Hoffa’s election campaign in 1996
•  Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa was a former labor attorney representing UPS and ATA member, Yellow Freight againstUPS employees
• UPS hired Eugene Scalia, son of U.S Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as a lobbyist to defeat ergonomics
• UPS attempted to endow a chair at the University of Washington and fill it with their bought M.D, and hired consultant, Stanley Bigos, who testified against the ergonomics standard in the House
• UPS and their Coalition is lobbying for the for the application of “cost benefit analysis” or worker death to cost to profit ratio
• UPS claimed publicly that the national ergonomic standard would cost its shareholders $3 billion
• UPS was the top contributor in the 2000 US Presidential Election- transportation sector: UPS $3,135,569
• Ergonomic injuries affect mainly lower wage scale workers, which is comprised mostly of minority and female workers
• UPS was the #1 political contributor while being a member of the NAMCE, the 300 company coalition headed by UPS
• UPS hires former OSHA head, DOROTHY STRUNK, as a consultant to attack and defeat the very language she drafted to protect workers from ergonomic injuries.  She’s paid over $60,000 as a UPS lobbyist (see documents enclosed)
• President Bush (’00) returns the favor to UPS and defeats the ergonomic bill affecting millions of American workers

 “Not a day goes by without a major fraud being reported in the mainstream media, with $100 million frauds coming around once a month or so. Corporate fraud costs the nation hundreds of billions. Compare that to street crime and burglary, which, according to the FBI, costs the nation $3.8 billion a year.”SOURCE~ Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor.          

UPS’s SOCIAL AND BUSINESS PRACTICES

• Annual turnover rate at UPS is 400%
• UPS’s association with National Welfare to Work campaign has hired more than 50,000 welfare recipients since the program began in 1997. Very few of those people remained by years end respectively.
• UPS receives incentives for hiring these people into “poverty” jobs
• Average weekly salary of the “welfare to work” employees was $104 after taxes per week. ($8.00 hr X 3.0 hour guarantee X 5 days – 25% with holdings and - $25 in union dues)
• Work place abuse, unsafe working conditions, and no hope for a FULL TIME job cited as reasons for leaving UPS
• UPS is routinely sued by the EEOC and various other Civil and Human rights agencies for violations, and discrimination
• RAINBOW PUSH Coalition is well known for attacking companies who violated minority’s civil rights, but it seems that UPS is a trading partner on their Board, and now has nothing to worry about from RAINBOW PUSH
• UPS’s main public relations firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is the volunteer firm for the UN Global Compact. The Compact is hoped to be a PR coup for “companies with tarnished public images to show to show their support for democracy and human rights” without ACTUALLY having to change their “practices”
• UPS is being sued in two separate class actions from previous customers who were over charged for insurance, which stems from UPS’s $1.8 billion tax evasion suit
• UPS was sued in two separate suits involving wage fraud regarding meal issues of drivers in New Jersey and Washington state, which have costUPS employees an estimated $3 billion
• Monopolistic practices: UPS is routinely suing foreign governments for “unfair, and monopolistic practices”, while expanding exponentially around the world, and at the same time keeping foreign companies out of the American market
• Workers at UPS who report unsafe working conditions, unsafe and illegal equipment, payroll fraud, and corruption are harassed and discharged often without help from the Hoffa controlled Teamsters union clearly in violation of Federal law

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Donation

Gratuity

Backhander

Sweetener

Kickback

Inducement

Fix

Payoff

Bribe

And another quote

	SANCTUS REAL (@SanctusReal)
12/09/2014 02:30 The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke

I didn't do nothing, but evil still triumphed

Time for a quote

      

	Inspirational Quotes (@InspowerMinds)
30/08/2014 17:19 Never give up on something you really want. It's difficult to wait, but way more difficult to regret.

Chilling effects

Still nothing here to tell me why my post http://mikeyvtheworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/paul-mooney-gets-mention.html was taken down.

Was it the use of the word fraud? - Doubt it, there is proof in my blog
Was it the use of the word bullying? - Again there's proof in my blog
Was it the use of the word liars? - Ditto
Was it the use of the word thieves? - Ditto
Was it the use of the words tachograph and working time fraud? - Ditto
Was it the use of the word paedophile? - Well the evidence is that Paul Mooney unnecessarily holds photo's of children. As yet unexplained.
Was it the use of the words paedophile ring? - UPS are supporting the actions of Paul Mooney. You would have to wonder why?

Tell me what is untrue and I will cease and desist. If I'm wrong then follow up your "legal complaint", but I can't cease and desist something I don't know about.

Paul Mooney doesn't get a mention

Notice Unavailable

Legal Complaint to Google

Sent by: Clyde & Co LLP
To: Google

The cease-and-desist or legal threat you requested is not yet available.

Chilling Effects will post the notice after we process it.

Google has been notified that content in your blog contains allegedly infringing content that may violate the rights of others and the laws of their country.

Notice that's only allegedly.

I suggest that you put it back or sue me.

There is still no further information available to say why it was taken down. I originally drafted this nearly a month ago.

Still waiting for google, UPS, Clyde & co. what are you scared of?
If I knew what it was, I would re-post it.

I wish I could remember what I posted on this one.
Chilling effects doesn't seem to give any information.

http://mikeyvtheworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/paul-mooney-gets-mention.html

I know that Clyde & Co are solicitors for UPS.

I think it was to do with Paul Mooney holding pictures of young children. I think I asked him to explain why he needed to have them and what the relevance was to the grievance/disciplinary that he was investigating. It appeared to me and the original poster that there was no relevance at all.

I would be more than happy to discuss this in court.

I'm fairly sure that I mentioned the word Paedophile, and maybe the possibility of a paedophile ring within UPS, as no-one had found it strange that Paul needed pictures of young children. Let's think about the type of people that the UPS Management are..........hmmmmm, works for me.

I think that I suggested that in today's climate, holding unnecessary pictures of children would imply that he was a paedophile, I haven't had any response or complaint, so I don't know. Just the removal of my post by a 3rd or 4th party.

I also think that I asked him, and UPS, to explain why he needed them. If I didn't, i'll ask now.

Paul Mooney, why do you need pictures of children? If you can justify why, I would be able to categorically state that you are not a paedophile.

Clyde and Co are complaining about the content of Paul Mooney gets a mention, but are not complaining about anything else. Does this mean that everything else is accurate?
D. Scott Davis is a hypocritical thief.
UPS Managers are liars, thieves and bullies.
All the tachograph and fraud information is accurate. I know that it is all true.

Victory For UPS

Post number 1,000.

Let´s make it significant.

Money =greed=bribery=corruption=

more money

Crime does pay

	UPS (@UPS)
27/08/2014 14:00 Why is honesty the best policy in the #corporateworld? Find out here: bit.ly/1qvNeqL

I didn't realise how prophetic Mikey v. the world would be.

UPS @UPS_News RT @UPSLongitudes: RT @brainpicker: “Success is being able to look in the mirror and know that I am all right on that day.” Great stuff... 07:15 PM - 18 Aug 14

	Ulrich J v Vuuren (@UlrichJvV)
21/08/2014 21:38 "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. #TakeAStand pic.twitter.com/RTaiO52jLd

Maybe mine has just ended.

David has thrown the last of his stones, it hit Goliath smack between the eyes and bounced off. Goliath is protected.

I haven,t the strength or energy to fight anymore. No one is interested. It doesn´t matter how much evidence you have, and I can prove everything that was in my grievances, as UPS know.

I can hear the collective sigh of relief from the UPS management, followed by a synchronized pant pissing. 

Unite wanted my case, yet mis-filed and lost the paperwork, only found it when I had left UPS, failed to process the paperwork when it turned up, failed to follow up on a complaints that I raised and Albert Graham threatened me with the Police. Albert, at least I have a Police reference number for my complaint, you never sent yours as I requested. An idle threat to cover your incompetence or back-hander?-Sue me. Why would the Union fail to take an opportunity to strengthen their hand? 

Anonymous5 August 2014 21:39

The union will make sure the end is nigh,We will all be replaced by osp's the union will then move onto another company to lie and cheat it's workers with false promises.

Talking of the Police, see above, Nothing. Either here or the States.Not a peep, & as I have said before, I have the report/reference numbers. More back-handers? or contributions/donations?

So called Professional people fail to follow things up.(CIPD) Again, lose paperwork and make mistakes. Can everyone be bought?

1,000´s of reported tachograph infringements and the DfT won´t follow up. The history behind that? Craig McIntosh, the Manager at Bury St Edmunds when UPS did end up in court was the man that claimed UPS drivers chose to work through their breaks. Chose to work through an unpaid break? I don´t think so. Productivity before safety.

The HSE would n´t follow up on bullying despite my signed survey. I was an ex-employee so did n´t count, the employees who signed did n´t count because they did n´t make the complaint. I wonder why they dare n´t complain? Retribution and bullying, the point that was made in the first place.

My MP, the Papers, all fail to follow things up, and now the best one of all?

My solicitor has made a "procedural error" and then spun out any replies until after the appeal time limit has expired. Can´t tell you what the procedural error is, she won´t talk to me. Looks like she´s taken the brown shilling as well.

All co-incidences?

Lies, deceit, bribery wins in the end.Even if there was no bribery, no-one will come after me, UPS would n´t let them, it´s the last thing that UPS wants, to end up in court.

They´d be exposed

The Union doesn't want to protect it's members.

DfT is n't interested in road safety.

HSE is n't interested in Health or Safety.

The papers aren't interested in an honest and accurate story.

My MP isn't interested in any of the above.

The Police aren't interested in crime, despite evidence, and based on recent news, I've done the investigation for them.

Bear in mind that I reported this as part of my job. I was not, as described, a disgruntled ex-employee, I was doing what I was paid to do, investigating and reporting.

Mike Whitehead

UPS 1991-2014*

R.I.P.

It's about time people starting asking UPS some questions

	JESUS SAVES (@Godly_Life)
24/08/2014 07:39 Be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." -Hebrews 13:5

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