According to the Teamsters this morning a strike action of their 340,000 workers employed by UPS is now more likely than ever. In a press release send this morning they state:
Around 4 a.m., UPS walked away from the bargaining table after presenting an unacceptable offer to the Teamsters that did not address membersā needs. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously rejected the package. Following marathon negotiations, UPS refused to give the Teamsters a last, best, and final offer, telling the union the company had nothing more to give. [...] No additional negotiations are scheduled.
The contract regulating these 340,000 workers expires on July 31; a strike action would thus begin on August 1.
Hard to overstate how big of a deal a UPS strike is. This will be the biggest strike of most of our lifetimes and will impact most peopleās lives
As a former employee of the extremely-non-union FedEx, I fully support this
