With a little more than three weeks until UPS workers’ threatened strike date arrives, businesses that rely on the nation’s largest package carrier have been considering their plan Bs.
The last time United Parcel Service went on strike in 1997, Amazon was still just a jungle in South America to most US consumers. If they went online at all, they probably did it via dial-up modem, and rarely to shop.
United Parcel Service, or UPS, Teamsters will start voting this week to authorize the union's leaders to call a strike in the event that a new five-year contract agreement cannot be reached before that date.