News / August strike looms as UPS and Teamsters talks collapse

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The spectre of a crippling strike is looming larger after the contract talks between UPS and the Teamsters union, which represents some 340,000 of the integrator’s employees, collapsed. In the early hours of Wednesday morning union representatives rejected management’s supposedly final offer as “unacceptable”.

Both sides blamed each other for the breakdown in negotiations. According to the company, the union stopped talks despite a generous offer. A UPS spokesman stated that the union has a responsibility to return to the negotiating ...