Dozens of United Parcel Service workers holding signs that said "People Over Packages" demonstrated outside the UPS Customer Service Center in Springfield Gardens, Queens April 28 to protest the firings of 10 co-workers for leaving their jobs roughly an hour early.
Vincent Perrone, the president of Teamsters Local 804, which represents the 110 workers at the customer-service center, insisted that the employees—two of whom were pregnant—had simply done what was standard practice for "months upon months" after their shifts were extended from a maximum of four hours to as much as six hours because of increased demand during the pandemic: left a bit early.
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