SCD: UPS will have trouble passing on any Teamsters wage hikes to shippers

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By LoadstarEditorial

13/07/2023

SUPPLY CHAIN DIVE reports:

UPS will have trouble passing off higher labor costs resulting from a new contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, experts interviewed by Supply Chain Dive say.

The wider variety of alternative carriers today versus 1997 — the last time UPS Teamsters went on strike — and softer delivery demand are key reasons why. As a result, shippers have less of an appetite to accept aggressive rate hikes from UPS and others than in years past, when they were ...

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