UPS worker killed at Atlanta hub
By
Steve Filips
18 December 2017
As the Christmas shipping deadline looms, workers are being pushed to the limit, forcing them to risk life and limb for investor profits.
Last Friday, December 15, at approximately 2:15 pm in the afternoon, William Stubbs, 51, was killed in the United Parcel Service (UPS) Pleasantdale Road hub facility near the giant package delivery company’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. In a statement to the media, a UPS spokesperson said William was a 17-year veteran and warehouse worker for UPS.
Stubbs had been assigned to unload trailers on Friday, according to a DeKalb County police spokeswoman who told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, “The victim had stepped off the dock and was standing on the ground between the dock door and the trailer that was being backed into the docking door.”
All of the statements on social media have characterized Stubbs as a good worker and well liked. He apparently did not have any immediate family. A coworker presented a different version of the events than the official account.
Greg Claudon, writing on the Facebook page of the Teamsters Local 728, said, “Will was the model employee, a good man and my friend.” He said inexperienced “corporate employees,” presumably salaried personnel, unexpectedly pulled the trailer out of the dock while William was still working inside. “They pulled the wrong trailer with him in it. He fell out of the trailer and onto the ground/yard… He tried to get back up but didn’t make it. This job was his life and they took it from him. This should not have happened.” Claudon added, “UPS should not have Corporate employees doing Teamster’s jobs.”
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