Thousands of UPS workers in Alabama will benefit from the contract agreement union members reached with the company after voting ended on Tuesday, union leaders told AL.com this week.

“I’m very happy for the hundreds of UPS workers here in Huntsville who are going to immediately get a raise of almost $3 an hour,” Jacob Morrison, secretary/treasurer for the North Alabama Area Labour Council, told AL.com. “That’s going to be a huge improvement in their lives.”

UPS says that by the end of the new contract, the average UPS full-time driver will make about $170,000 annually in pay and benefits, the Associated Press reported.

Over 86% of the 150,000 union members who voted nationwide over three weeks ratified the five-year agreement, including wage increases for members. Those include drivers, warehouse workers, and mechanics.

“I am very happy for the full-time package car drivers who are going to have the right to take back more of their freedom from UPS because they will no longer, management will no longer be able to force them to work a sixth day in a week,” said Morrison. “They’ll only work six days in a week if that’s something that they choose to do, which is a huge improvement.”

The agreement covers over 300,000 full-and part-time employees, UPS said in a statement to Al.com. There are three local teamsters unions in Alabama: the northern part of the state has about 700 employees affected by the deal, and the Birmingham area has about 2,000 employees. The Mobile union did not immediately say how many UPS employees would be affected in south Alabama.

The approval includes record pay raises, establishes Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday, stops driver-facing cameras, increases part-time wages, mandates air conditioning in vehicles, provides reasonable break time for breastfeeding, and if the company wants to introduce drones or driverless vehicles, UPS will meet with Teamsters 45 days before the proposed change.

“We showed UPS that we were ready to strike if we had to. That’s how we ended a generation of givebacks under Hoffa and put our union back on the offense against UPS,” Teamsters DU Co-chair Eugene Braswell said.

There is a national master agreement and several other local agreements that the union ratified, except one, the Latin American Inc. supplement covering 174 workers in Florida. Teamsters will immediately meet with UPS to renegotiate any outstanding issues with the supplement, the union said.

“The new national contract will not go into effect until that small supplement is settled,” the union said yesterday. “Wage increases will be paid retroactively to August 1 once the remaining supplement is finalized, and with it, the National Master Agreement.”

Morrison said additional agreements covering the southern states of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and Florida would impact workers’ pensions.

“The southern supplement included an additional $1,000 a month in the pension for anybody that retires during this contract that has worked for UPS over 30 years,” he said. “An additional $1,000 a month in your pension, I think, is pretty good.”