UPS said it expects to cut 20,000 jobs this year and close 73 buildings in the next two months, as the company reduces its business with Amazon and faces wider economic uncertainty.
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The shipping giant said in its first quarter earnings news release that the moves were expected to save $3.5 billion this year, and were being conducted “in connection with our anticipation of lower volumes from our largest customer,” which is Amazon.
Every brilliant, professional economist at his beck and call but the bloated, bloviating ignorant mfka thinks he knows more than anyone. We will be lucky if we don’t sink into a depression.
Yes and also this was planned before Trump took over. They’re making most of their warehouse more automated and with Amazon building so many new warehouses they’ve cut out UPS as they can no longer keep up with competitive pricing. It will only get worse now because of Trumps Tariff tax
You're right, we should go back to the status quo and allow China to continue expanding and dominating while our QOL drops a little bit more every day.
I voted for this and any collateral damage is just too bad, RIPBOZO etc.
That you think Trump's Tariffs will take us back to pre-Nixon 1970s days before he got in line for China "Opening to the West," and US Companies started outsourcing everything to non-union sweatshops and piecemeal Chinese workers, you deserve his obscene delusion.
Americans' addiction to cheap imports has been in play for more than half a century; entire sectors of our economic DNA are based on it and we're now part of an entire global ecosystem. But sure, Trump's childish tariffs will change that. Bwhahahaha.
But what is the plan though? We here at the bottom gonna struggle while the rich have a way deeper breath when it comes to economic hardship. All major projects like chip manufacturing have been halted or postponed because of tariffs. So where's the plan?
No I just lived in the country for 40 years and realized the stock market has doubled while my quality of life halved, and I don't have a 401k, nor do any of my friends, so I am here to watch it burn down.
That’s some dark 💩
Before trump tariffs the entire planet worked together on trade to everyone’s benefit. We get affordable products and places like China, India, Vietnam have had millions lifted out of extreme poverty. Worked for all 🤷♀️
You voted for a President to incinerate the private wealth needed to build a diversified manufacturing industry in the USA? Stop making excuses for the stupidity.
Did Fox News forget to tell you that the 3% are running the country? That Trump's cabinet is peppered with billionaires? They aren't losing money, it's the people whose funds are parked and not daytrading who are. Trump said exactly that last night. You are uninformed. Sad.
I have no idea if it will go up, but I know it was only going to keep going down with Knee Pads in office, so it doesn't matter if it gets worse or not because it was going to get worse anyway.
Your bizarre sexualized remark about a woman you are repeating a lie about aside (and it's fucking weird when you incels do that), you don't seem to realize which party and policies have been responsible for your declining share of the pie. This isn't even a secret. But you keep falling for it.
UPS took a drastic cut shipping Amazon pkg's and a large portion of mail became overwhelming.
Let's see what Amazon's plan is moving forward without UPS dealing with its product.
UPS also wanted a “cost neutral contract“ with Teamsters after they made $97 billion off of Covid…. They didn’t want to share any of it with the feet on the ground who made it happen.
I was there. I was one of the essential workers, and they screwed me.
When 20,000 jobs disappear, it's not just a headline. It's families, futures, and communities in transition. We can't just adapt to change—we have to shape it with dignity, fairness, and purpose.
What does Trump’s immediate action to STOP Amazon’s disclosure of TARIFF Price increases on products we buy tell us? He has LIED TO US about exporting countries paying his tariffs! The truth is HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT the fuck HE IS DOING WITH TARIFFS.
Participate in the General Strike 5/1/25:
Unions, wobble.
Take a staycation.
Share the strike with your local news & national social media platforms, companies and family members.
Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
Keep in mind that a few months ago they announced that they plan on reducing Amazon volume by 50%. But with the tariffs, they just may not have a choice in reducing the volume lol
Niiice...millions will be out of work while the BloatedMalfeasant lines his pockets and tells his ignorant base to be patient because all the richness and winning is just around the next corner!
Whatever the profession, Trump seems determined to undermine it to coerce professionals into becoming factory workers. He’s willing to trade entire sectors for the return of manufacturing. It’s bonkers.
UPS ships a shit load of trailers via rail. If they’re cutting then so will rail shipping. Rail shipping slows so will intra-city trucking. Intra-city trucking slows so will retailers. Retailers slows, so will banking. Banks will pile cash on cash until something breaks loose.
They want the property, USPS owns more buildings than any other entity. There’s a post office in almost every city in the USA, US territories and on military bases.
He conned millions into voting for him now he's got them believing that he's maga, when the opposite is happening. This is unreality TV, seems most of his base can't even spell the word dumb!
Wake up America, smell the coffee. IMPEACH!
Oh cool less USPS and more fed ex mis delivering my packages and signing them and lieing to the bike company's I order my bikes saying it was properly delivered.
Trump, Trump…., I would say that more than 65%+ union employees at UPS voted for Trump even after groups told them that he was a union buster and he’s not a fan of high wages. Now they’ve been crying about their vote since Jan. Many have and will lose their jobs. FA-FO. You’ve been lied to.
I never voted for him either. But unfortunately a majority did vote for him. And I guess those voters are getting what they wanted. It isn’t as if Trump’s racism, incompetence, and amorality were hidden.
I cancelled WaPo before the election and Amazon the day after. My only complain is getting all the catalogs from the companies I order things from. I got a dictionary-sized book from U-Line that was completely wasteful.
I’ll bet you’re happy to see ANYTHING happen that you can propagandize people with as some negative thing against the American people who voted Trump into office in a way bigger landslide than you brainwashed liars tell people! If democrap scum didn’t allow illegals to vote, you get NOTHING!
Amazon thanks you for creating a space it will fill with its own underpaid, overworked stress-out benefit-less drivers using their own vehicles, gas, and insurance. Thank you.
What a load of poo. They expect 'less pachages' ? Good grief. The package industry has exploded! This decision just sounds like stockholders want more money for themselves.
Though weasel worded so as not to be accused of being "hostile", UPS’s CEO said the small & medium sized business customers source from China, and the Trump administration’s 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods was the cause of world's uncertainty in the marketplace.
Amazon is taking over everything. I’m old enough to remember when our country believed monopolies were bad for our citizens but no more I guess. Capitalism does not work without competition.
WaPo buried the lead. This is about automation.
I despise Trump to infinity but if you want an enemy it's good to focus on the real ones.
Corporations automating because it's cheaper. That's what this is.
How pathetic. For many years UPS like so many businesses made tons of money from their employees efforts. So the going gets tough. Can the company just live with less? And keep everyone working? Less profit for now. Keeping families intact and reliable workers at hand.
So, are we there yet and enjoying the reality of MAGA?! PS: Does anyone have any red caps that the UPS folks and I can change to instead of the 🧢 and/or greenish brownish ones? 🫤
I wouldn’t want to touch them with a molten lava steel pole. They can all fuck themselves, get fucked & fuck off. The ones who supported this are only fucking over themselves… and the rest of the world.
UPS employs shit-tons of MAGA, discriminates against LGBT, oppresses workers to the point of suicide, and the Teamsters is headed by a MAGA sympathizer (Sean O'Brian). This company can get fucked, imo..
Is UPS and USPS gonna merge? UPS is the best delivery service at least where I live,laid off UPS workers hired back? Under DOGE a lot of color eliminated ? Inquiring minds want to know 🤔🤔 USPS becomes Trump Postal Service,By the way is Air Force One becoming Trump Force One? Inquiring minds still 🤫
No, if our federal government banned X it would be because Elon turned it into an app full of misinformation and hate, seemingly manipuating the dolts in our society to favour greed and forget empathy.
Instagram also needs to be heavily monitored (mostly racism).
Ahhh, such greatness for the economy when hundreds of thousands of people are out of jobs and don’t put money back into it. This is surely all going to go really well and remember, “Thy billionaires that love America deeply will help ease any burden the people feel” John 3:16
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The decision to lay off employees and close warehouses will have a big impact on employees and the industry as a whole.UPS's reduction in its partnership with Amazon is also a reflection of the changing dependencies between large companies.
Is America great again? Cause all I see is America going on fire in all departments.. 😂🤦🏻♂️. But hey, what did we expect would happen if the clown got back in office? That he was going to be pro middle class? Things were going to get easier? 😂. Pshhh.
Bezos bent the knee, paid the criminal his required bribes, made himself rich from his sworn enemies he now destroys our economy while taking the perfect revenge on us all
Do we realize the crypto $ he has gained from his illegal meme coin?
Read the Financial Report & Project 2025 to devalue the $
In economics there is something called the multiplier effect. It is the secondary impacts from a primary impact. So when UPS lets go of 20,000 workers, they buy less of everything. That "multiplies" like ripples on a pond spread across the economy.
The uncertainty of Trump's tariffs are causing businesses to scale back (i.e layoffs). Hundreds of American businesses have lost business because of Trump's idiotic behavior. Tell me how Trump doesn't have anything to do with it.
So its not Amazon scaling up their logistics, handling their own deliveries, cutting out the need for UPS to deliver their packages? It couldnt be that? Its, *checks notes*, Trump's fault?
No. It's not. As a small business owner (who gets ALL items needed for said business from America) I can confirm for a fact that Trump's tariffs are the cause of all the chaos & lack of business. You may want to educate yourself on economics. Otherwise, you just look ignorant.
Part of this is the billionaire backlash. These unapologetic resource suckers, think blue origin flights are a disaster. I always think of a way to AVOID buying from Amazon. Even Walmart is a better choice, that’s saying something!
We are winning. 🥇 Meanwhile, Lutnick was taking about those glorious multigenerational jobs that are swimming back to America and should arrive en masse sometime around 2,400 AD.
Amazing how trade wars fuck up everything isn’t it? It’s like squeezing a long balloon, the other side will bulge. For the so called wealthiest economy on n the world to suddenly feel “ripped off” and need to do this is completely honkers
Why don't your journalists investigate why your billionaire owner is kissing the ring of a felonious traitor & conman against the best interests of every single US citizen.
And here i thought Welcoming in the new Great Recession would come with a cheerful parade through the Panama Canal 🇵🇦 🚢🚢🚢 but Commercial Ports turned into parking docks, while he golfs is so DJT.
Cue the accusations that UPS is engaging in "hostile and political acts." Don't they know they're supposed to suck it up so the emperor can enjoy his new clothes?
The egregious, personal impact of Trump’s draconian, irrational tariffs are starting to tear the fabric of American labor and economic stability.The domino effect can be seen in this massive hit to UPS and Amazon ;data from the 2Q will reveal the extent of the wreckage.GDP will continue to diminish.
And the GOP will continue to flop about on the job with their mouths open, like fish on a dock waiting for the honor to be gutted and made scapegoats for DJT&Goons mass financial delinquency.
I feel for all those people but I sure wish the people who deliver for Amazon could read this week for the 10th time this year my package was delivered to one of my neighbors all doors clearly say the number of our unit -not reading letters might be hard for some but most people can read numbers
Well officially the teamsters refused to endorse any candidate because traditionally they've endorsed Democrats. Since Democrats started selling unions out in the '90s many teamsters have switched to Republicans. Most teamsters voted for Donald Trump. So you know what fuck these guys no sympathy 🤪🖕
But tariffs are great for the country—20,000 people who will have a hard time finding other jobs in a shrinking economy. So much winning thanks to MAGA.
Sadly I personally know of many UPS union workers & shop stewards who voted and still proudly support this Dumpster Fire we call Donald. To make it worse the President of the Teamsters endorsed him.
One guy I know never claimed to support Trump and always seemed cool & down to earth. Every day during break he would check his stocks. I don’t work at the same location anymore. Though I’m curious to know what he thinks & how he feels about how his stocks & 401k have been affected.
Im sure it’s possible. I don’t have his contact but I could stop by my old location for a visit. As much as I try to avoid Meta I still keep it active for my Tattoo business. Occasionally I find coworkers from that location on Insta/Face. I only add the good ones.
I think it’s because the President of the Teamsters endorsed Trump. They must be drinking the kool-aid, thinking Trump & Musk all off a sudden support Unions. They obviously don’t know who these scumbags are or haven’t been paying attention all these years.
This is my opinion and mine alone. I feel the President of the Teamsters Union is in bed with Trump. Because there is no way in Hell he has his rank and file best interest at hand. This is after President Biden and VP Harris saved the Teamsters Union pension.
It was extremely cringe seeing OBrian get on stage to speak at the RNC. I didn’t start at UPS until after the UPS voting cycle. He will be up for reelection soon and It’s a no from me.
IDK! They’re dumbass dudes that must think he’s cool. I mentioned to one that I’m anti-Trump because I support my rights to bodily autonomy. His response was talking about unborn babies. I mentioned to another that Trump is a Serial Sex Offender and he tried to claim Kamala is an overpriced escort.
I’ve always had a bad vibe about these dudes. When I found out they’re Trump supporters it only confirmed the type of ideologies & mentality they have. I’m sure their heart they’ve always been this way. Trump is just a conduit for them. Birds of a feather.
Let's be clear President Biden left Donald Trump one of the best economy in America history. Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump his Russia assets to totally destroy the American economy. Donald Trump is following orders.
Before we again accuse trump of being stupid, look back over statements from Fed Chair when Biden was president and the economy was booming. Workers were intent on raising wages and the Fed suggested slowing the economy to maintain low wages
It’s not coming back anytime soon. Dominos of industry are falling. Will be difficult to rebuild what is being destroyed so easily. Resources in our future will be severely limited. Thanks to MAGA Republicans supporting unitary rule. By an idiot.
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I voted for this and any collateral damage is just too bad, RIPBOZO etc.
Before trump tariffs the entire planet worked together on trade to everyone’s benefit. We get affordable products and places like China, India, Vietnam have had millions lifted out of extreme poverty. Worked for all 🤷♀️
The QOL drops has more to do with American Capitalism culture than it does with China specifically.
Go kiss Donald’s ass more Jeff
Let's see what Amazon's plan is moving forward without UPS dealing with its product.
They bought it !!!!!
I was there. I was one of the essential workers, and they screwed me.
Unions, wobble.
Take a staycation.
Share the strike with your local news & national social media platforms, companies and family members.
Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
There is plenty of business out there get to finding it.
Domestic consumer spending is contracting. Tariffs are causing a massive decline in availability and increased pricing.
UPS is scaling back to due to lower demand.
HOPE FOR ALL TO ORGANIZE and FIGHT!!!!
NOW!!!!!!!!!!
Wake up America, smell the coffee. IMPEACH!
Kk
Great choice.
Airbus, Sartorius, Strabag, Rheinmetall, Deutsche Boerse, Renk Group, Leonardo, Naga Group ( secret tip)
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Jobs bad
Trump will destroy the US economy completely if someone doesn’t stop him! 🤬
Shame on Trump voters, third party & non-voters!
We knew it’s going to happen! 🤬
Another Trump Tax casualty.
Can you do it with charts? Is that still allowed?
Trump birthday.
The day we Do Not have a military parade.
Come to the Party!
I despise Trump to infinity but if you want an enemy it's good to focus on the real ones.
Corporations automating because it's cheaper. That's what this is.
Ditch reliance on corporations. Lower your cost of living. The more you interact financially, the more you are controlled.
uncomfortable"? it Won't be thedjt's
'Greatest Recession'
it's gonna be the Next
'Great Depression.'
buckle Up.
The pony horse express always needs our support!
Union workers can be hypocrites.
Guess what? The POTUS that fought for those high wages & their right to organize wasnt/isn't TRUMP!
Instagram also needs to be heavily monitored (mostly racism).
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Do we realize the crypto $ he has gained from his illegal meme coin?
Read the Financial Report & Project 2025 to devalue the $
Do we recall vows of REVENGE he repeated against his enemies?
He's only subverted our Criminal Justice System cuz WE LET HIM get away w/ crimes he KNEW our reps would NEVER prosecute, Sitting or NOT
Sweet REVENGE on his enemy using ALL OF US!!
They deserve this so much.
Local businesses near these facilities will also suffer.
Suffering completely unwarranted and self-inflicted.
But you would have to give up the internet to fully boycott, Amazon Web Services is an enormous chunk of the internet's infrastructure.
I just wanna hear your TDS riddled answer.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/trump-china-trade-negotiations.html
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That must be a juicy scoop.
#notviable
I know, I worked for ups.
Most drivers wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
🤣
And Bezos- you’re guilty too.
These are #Doge RELATED, but not Doge #CAUSED!!
You don’t have to agree with everything, work together It’s worked in the past, bipartisan is the way!
Help us help your constituents, don’t harm them
If you love your country, help us
This is your America now.