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| Category: | Caring for Communities |
| Tags: | 9-11, Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout, Jeff Cox, Order of the Arrow, World Trade Center |
When 15-year-old Boy Scout Jeff Cox attended the Eagle Encampment in June 2009 to learn more about The Trail to Eagle—the detailed process for the Leadership Service Project required to become an Eagle Scout—he had no idea of the journey that would follow.
00 | Category: | Business Insights, Global Impact |
| Tags: | export, Gary Locke, National Export Initiative, Scott Davis, small business, U.S. Commercial Service |
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis recently visited a UPS facility to talk to more than 200 business leaders and entrepreneurs about President Obama’s National Export Initiative and the importance of exporting to the U.S. economy and job creation.
During the meeting, UPS and the Commerce Secretary discussed an expansion of our collaborative efforts to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) export. To help UPS customers grow their exports, we’re working with the U.S. Commercial Service to connect exporting customers with resources to identify new opportunities and additional buyers in new markets. As a division of the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, the Commercial Service provides export resources and consultative services to U.S. companies through its network of over 100 U.S. Export Assistance Centers domestically and 120 offices overseas in nearly 80 countries.
30 | Category: | Business Insights |
| Tags: | Brown Betties, Ginny Odom, Mazie Lanham, Women’s History month, Women’s Leadership Development, World War II |
March is Women’s History month and I want to share some of UPS’s little-known women’s history. UPS has employed women since the early days of the company. They tended to be secretaries, telephone operators, billing recorders, stenographers and general office workers. But by October 1942 – 10 months after the United States’ entrance into World War II and with men joining the armed forces by the thousands daily – UPS began to hire women to work in the operations side of the company.
Seattle, Wash., the city that saw the birth of UPS, had the first facility to employ women in package operations positions. By December 1942 women worked in the operations of Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The women still worked behind the scenes, in jobs such as sorting, tracing, routing, and loading of packages. These women UPSers quickly became known throughout the company as “Brown Betties.” Read More »
