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CHICAGO (CBS) — Hispanic Heritage Month continues and we’re honoring the accomplishments of an Oak Lawn mom.
She’s blazing the way for Hispanic women successful a tract dominated by achromatic men.
Morning Insider Lauren Victory introduces america to this modern-day “Rosie The Riveter.”
Sparks are perpetually flying and thing is ever breached connected the 45 miles of belts astatine the monolithic UPS installation successful Palatine.
Not to worry, mechanic apprentice Estella Garcia is connected manus to hole problems.
Mechanic apprentice Estella Garcia and her crew.
“Check each the sprockets, the chains, the pulleys,” she said, listing immoderate of her regular tasks.
The azygous ma of 2 started astatine UPS arsenic a bundle handler. She worked during the time and went to mechanic schoolhouse astatine night, utilizing UPS acquisition benefits. There was a batch of studying, grooming and a immense test.
“I utilized to similar moving connected cars with my dada and worldly similar that, but I didn’t cognize the due presumption to these items,” Garcia said. “If it was easy, everyone would beryllium here.”
UPS hopes to enlistee much unicorns similar her. By immoderate estimates, women marque up lone 24 percent of employees successful the proscription sector; lone astir 4 percent of workers successful the industry are specifically Hispanic females.
“If determination are connection barriers, we tin decidedly enactment with that,” said Chris Szwarc, answering our question astir precisely however he’s trying to beef up the fig of Hispanic women successful his mechanic attraction program.
“We person a recruiting squad that goes retired and solicits, and a batch of worldly is successful antithetic languages,” said Szwarc who serves arsenic a UPS Facility Engineer.
He added that astatine slightest immoderate instructors are bilingual and that a batch of recruits to the programme travel via connection of rima among existing employees.
“Kind of what I subordinate with is a Tejena,” said Garcia who had a Frida Kahlo sticker connected her helmet. “She was a truly beardown empowering pistillate and a batch of women look up to her.”
Maybe immoderate volition look up to Garcia present particularly if you ticker our CBS 2 video of her welding, grinding and fixing electrical issues.
“My mom’s like, ‘You should speech astir it [her job]. That’s bada**.’ I don’t cognize if I tin accidental that connected TV,” Garcia said, laughing.
She is blessed to make a buzz astir blistery opportunities particularly if it opens the doorway to different women similar her.
People funny successful heavy-duty, hands-on enactment tin articulation the mechanic attraction programme with nary acquisition but are astir often UPS employees promoted from within. We mentioned Garcia started arsenic a bundle handler.
UPS is presently connected the hunt for thousands of bundle handlers astatine facilities crossed the Chicago area. Many of those positions are seasonal done January 2022.
Here is much from UPS:
In Chicago UPS is hiring for:
· bundle car drivers
· tractor-trailer drivers
· bundle handlers
· idiosyncratic conveyance drivers
Local UPS facilities hiring seasonal workers include:
· Palatine – 2100 N. Hicks Rd, Palatine IL.
· Northbrook – 2525 Shermer Rd, Northbrook IL
· Franklin Park – 2301 Rose Street, Franklin Park IL
· Addison – 100 S. Lombard, Addison IL
· Jefferson Street – 1400 S. Jefferson Street, Chicago IL
· Bedford Park – 6700 W. 73rd Street, Bedford Park IL
· Lockport – 16328 John Lane Crossing, Lockport IL
· Harvey – 16701 Center Street, Harvey IL
· Chicago Area Consolidation Hub – 1 UPS Way Hodgkins, IL 606525
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