At 4 a.m. in the morning of July 5, UPS took the seemingly irreversible step of walking away from negotiations with the Teamsters. The current contract between the union and the package delivery company expires July 31. What makes this development newsworthy is that no additional negotiations are scheduled between the two sides. Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said, “UPS had a choice to make, and they have clearly chosen to go down the wrong road.” UPS claims it has nothing more to give. A strike by the Teamsters’ over 340,000 UPS workers would bring major consequences to consumers and the U.S. economy at large.
Read the full story by Teamster News, published July 5, 2023, here:https://teamster.org/2023/07/after-marathon-sessions-ups-negotiations-collapse/
