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To elaborate for guys/gals interested in Brown: basically MD is saying that the extra 24 hires ups touted for 2017 probably isn't going to come to fruition and ups might not even reach the full 301 by year's end. For the 301, there is an oct class remaining so unless it has 24 (big class by UPS standards) we will fall short without a Nov class and there has been no evidence of classes beyond Oct.

The additional 24 requires the company to host a vacancy bid which is a bid of open positions across all fleets and domiciles - they could all be on 1 plane in 1 base or scattered through everything. This vacancy bid must be run and awarded before any of those vacancies, or whatever would be leftover from the reshuffling, are offered to new hires. The 301 vacancies were awarded through this process at the beginning of this year. The point is that it all takes time so the suggestion by MD is that unless UPS runs the required vacancy bid soon, there simply won't be enough time remaining in the year to do so later-but that is if they want guys to start this calendar year. They could still run the bid, in say December, and have the classes in 2018.

Internal formums are mixed bag of rumors as to whether or not there will be an additional bid this year. They also suggest the most probable cause stems from insufficient training resources. As far as 2018 hiring goes, all we know is that the company casually mentioned to our union that they anticipate hiring will continue at a similar rate.