340,000 UPS workers could go on strike July 31. Here’s what it means.

Photo caption: Teamsters in Queens, New York, hold “practice” picket signs on July 7, ahead of a potential strike. Photo credit: Timothy A Clary / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Rani Molla. Vox – July 11, 2023.

Our reliance on delivery gives the Teamsters union a lot more leverage in UPS negotiations.

When UPS workers last went on strike in 1997, the New York Times reported that the labor stoppage “created myriad inconveniences, large and small, for companies and consumers across the nation” and “largely crippled” the company. It lasted 15 days before the delivery company acceded to many of the union’s demands. […]

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