UPS Reaches Tentative Deal With Teamsters to Head Off Strike

The United Parcel Service handles about one-quarter of the tens of millions of packages that are shipped daily in the United States. United Parcel Service announced Tuesday that it had reached a tentative deal on a five-year contract with the union representing more than 325,000 of its U.S. workers, a key step in averting a potential strike.

The union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, reported in June that its UPS members had voted to authorize a walkout after the expiration of the current agreement on Aug. 1, with 97 percent of those who took part in the vote endorsing the […]

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