UPS closing operations in Texas, North Carolina as downsizing spreads
The UPS continues to dismiss workers as they proceed with the strategy of merging parcel distribution facilities to reduce excess capacity. The latest business cuts are in Dallas, Texas and Wilmington, North Carolina.
The integrated parcel logistics company reported that he plans to publish 62 workers at the Dallas facility on Monroe Drive at the Texas Labor Commission last week. The layoffs started on August 5th.
A UPS (NYSE: UPS) spokesman Dallas Express. first reported about the reduction of the labor force, Since the business is spent, the company eliminates a daily shift in the facility as part of a large network restructuring aiming to eliminate 200 lightning centers for five years and distribute automation to increase productivity.
Meanwhile, News Magazine in Wilmington Reports The UPS will close a facility on September 23 at the USA Route 68. Spokesman Karen Tomaszewski Hill, the newspaper, because it lacks high -tech ranking systems, the facility was closed as part of the Culling process throughout the country, he said. The packages will lead to a more modern facility that can process more volumes.
UPS expects most of the Wilmington employees to be transferred to another nearby facility, but the company did not say which. The news magazine is not known how many people have been employed in the Wilmington region because it does not publish the censuses for UPS individual facilities.
Atlanta -based courier, North Carolina Ministry of Commerce, according to a statement opened, in early May, a facility in Charlotte dismissed 99 workers.
In July, Temporarily close a parcel sorting center in New Orleans and 177 staff left.
The UPS has seen that volume growth was stagnant for about two years and expects volumes to be reduced because it focuses on turning low -margin jobs. Earlier this year, the company management said that decisions to eliminate half of his job with Amazon and Streamline infrastructure would need 20,000 less workers.
Movements come while trying to eliminate more work by offering a voluntary separation package to UPS drivers. Freightwaves reported on Saturday UPS gave more time to decide the Van drivers because the program has not been exaggerated so far.
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