UPS Mass Layoffs as 48,000 Jobs Cut
Source: Newsweek
Published Oct 28, 2025 at 09:58 AM EDT updated Oct 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM EDT
United Parcel Service (UPS) on Tuesday said it had cut 48,000 positions in the first nine months of 2025.
The Atlanta-based company said the reductions comprised 14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its operational workforceemployees involved in its day-to-day logistics and delivery services.
When contacted for comment, UPS directed Newsweek to Tuesdays release and emphasized that the 48,000 cuts had already occurred.
Why It Matters
UPS said the layoffs were part of a broader effort to cut costs and reshape the company to better adapt to shifting market dynamics, as executives face pressure to stem a long-term decline in the share price, which has fallen by more than 20 percent this year.
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travelingthrulife
(3,998 posts)Lovie777
(21,280 posts)the rate this current Republican party is headed, for most American, it gonna be brutal.
Now tell me how much the GQP loves Christmas?
IronLionZion
(50,492 posts)because MAGA economic policies are creating so many good jobs
erronis
(22,147 posts)It's got to be hell to be an employee in any of these huge corporations.
CentralMass
(16,797 posts)CanonRay
(15,853 posts)You got into the teamsters when you had 90 days. They laid me off on the 89th day. Shitheads.
mpcamb
(3,169 posts)It's what we do to enhance our lives... Like a living wage, like Social Security, like safety-net measures that rich
bastards don't need.
IronLionZion
(50,492 posts)I never hear them make that idiotic argument about the military, police, or ICE.
Lemon Lyman
(1,547 posts)And because, like everything, they want to privatize it - put it in the hands of one of their jerkoff rich benefactors. That way, said rich benefactor can get richer while all of the USPS employees get poorer.
Polybius
(21,253 posts)Unlike USPS, it is a private company founded in 1907.
IbogaProject
(5,475 posts)The postal service goes by USPS.
CentralMass
(16,797 posts)BlueWavePsych
(3,319 posts)
wolfie001
(6,640 posts)Stock market's going crazy yet not many people are spending. Housing is somewhat shot. Can anyone afford the standard price of a new car? $50,000? I sure can't. Maybe the top 1%'ers can buy one off the lot.
tclambert
(11,186 posts)And when Walmart can restock their shelves with robots, that will strike hundreds of thousands more jobs off the list.
We face a future in which people can no longer trade labor for money. The machines will be able to do it ALL. And it looks like we will blindly stumble into that future with no advance planning.