That is the hourly wage increase for UPS workers over the five years of a proposed new contract between the Teamsters union and UPS tentatively agreed to this week. But the pact still has to be approved by rank-and-file members, an outcome which remains unclear pending a vote not scheduled to end until August 22. That $7.50 over five years doesn’t seem like that much, but the union reached many other of its objectives, including: a lower tier of wages that allowed UPS to move from 5-day-a-week delivery to 6 day will be eliminated; no more mandatory overtime; UPS will add 7,500 full-time jobs and fill 22,500 other open full-time positions; UPS will buy air conditioned delivery vans starting next year and will add heat mitigation features to the existing fleet of 95,000 vans; and paid holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which Teamsters have never enjoyed, will be added. Teamsters President Sean O'Brien called the deal a "game changer" for US workers, adding "This contract sets a new standard in the labor movement and raises the bar for all workers.”