Why The Potential UPS Strike Matters To Black Workers

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 21, 2023

If a deal isn’t reached by August 1, there could be a strike by 340,000 unionized workers at United Parcel Service Inc. Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are planning to walkout on strike, which “would snarl shipments of the 19 million packages that UPS moves daily in the US.”

If this were to occur, this would be “the largest work stoppage

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