Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien’s latest war cry on the impending Teamsters UPS strike has only gotten louder as the August 1 deadline for a contract agreement approaches. Although, according to O’Brien, 95% of the new contract with UPS has been negotiated, issues regarding “economics” have still not been resolved. 340,000 Teamsters are employed by UPS, and a strike would have major impacts on the UPS supply chain in the U.S. and internationally, O’Brien says. Pay for part-timers is a sticking point.
Read the full story by Isabel Rosales, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Raja Razek for CNN, published July 22, 2023, here:https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/22/business/teamsters-president/index.html
