Today [June 28], the International Brotherhood of Teamsters walked away from the national bargaining table and officially demanded UPS exchange its last, best, and final offer no later than June 30.
The Teamsters gave UPS a one-week notice on Tuesday to act responsibly and exchange a stronger economic proposal for more than 340,000 full- and part-time workers. UPS executives couldn’t make it one more day without insulting and ignoring union leaders and rank-and-filers as negotiations resumed on Wednesday.
“The largest single-employer strike in American history now appears inevitable,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien.
With a deadline of Friday to return a last, best, and final offer, UPS risks putting itself on strike by August 1 and causing devastating disruptions to the supply chain in the U.S. and other parts of the world. Teamsters nationwide overwhelmingly authorized a strike this month by 97 percent should UPS fail to come to terms on a new contract. UPS’s impending failure is one step closer to reality and has the potential to affect nearly all Americans.
There's one bright spot to the mainstream media being terrified of bringing attention to potential strikes: no-one in my workplace seems to know anything about this. And we depend pretty heavily on rush deliveries of specialized replacement parts for our factory machines. Our parent company has mandated that all shipments from the US into our Canadian branch be via UPS because they negotiated discounts with UPS. If this strike happens, it's going to strand a whole lot of our very expensive replacement parts in UPS warehouses.
When I saw this news I briefly debated letting co-workers know about so they could plan ahead and ship via other carriers, but I've decided "fuck it". I want to enjoy the chaos.
Hope it works out for them. Unions have been getting owned this year in the US.
What's going on with UPS bargaining? Like "i could let these guys keep their middle class income, or I could drop the GDP half a point, maybe get fired, and then possibly still pay these guys a middle class income."
They're willing to kill people (a logistics strike will kill people) on a bet that maybe they can win.
These Fuckers deserve to lose, and i expect each and every one of you to sign up for a picket shift.
They saw the rail workers get fucked and the recent supreme court case that fucked labor and think they have it in the bag.
But isn't UPS mostly under the Wagner act? As long as they take precautions to protect the bosses' property (🙄) they shouldn't be offsides can still win by the rigged rules the US gives them.
They also know that we're striking well in advance. But with how anti-labor the court and administration has been, I have a feeling they'll be crying property destruction on day one. If the strike goes longer than a week I wouldn't be surprised to see serious violence from the state/pinkertons.
For sure, the NLRB has been sympathetic though, it's just a matter of if they rule fast enough to keep it out of the courts. I wouldn't be surprised if they were all hands on deck for you guys because of how big this strike is.
Either way, I hope you guys have the capacity to continue in the face of Pinkertons and injunctions. I'm rooting for you
This will set the tone for labor in the US in the near term for better or worse. I'll be out there fighting for a better future for all of us. If you're able to, go show some solidarity at your nearest UPS center on August 1.
Rest in peace to my package coming in from far away to be shipped through UPS. Solidarity forever.
Teamsters don't expect a taft Hartley will come into play and the bargaining team is going extremely hard. It can be the biggest strike since the 50s so pay attention until August 1st cuz the agreement deadline is July 31st!
