Carl Goff winces at the memory of being behind the wheel of a UPS truck at 4 p.m. in July. For nearly 40 years, he’d brace for the afternoon hours as he made...
Some key issues have already been addressed at the bargaining table, like installing air conditioning in delivery trucks, a particularly poignant issue across the country, and in Texas, as temperatures continue to break record highs. Goff said temperature gauges in the back of trucks routinely read hotter than 125 degrees.
Union leaders asked the White House to not intervene if an agreement is not met with their employer. Nearly 30 Democratic senators on Wednesday vowed not to intervene if contract talks fail and the workers go on strike. Charlotte Suter, a UPS employee for seven years, alongside other employees, take part in a picketing practice on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Dallas. UPS employees are preparing to go on strike and have begun staging practice pickets across Texas for a union contract.
“The impact of a supply chain disruption is no longer an academic exercise,” the trade group said. “We need only look in our rear-view mirror to see the economic and consumer harm that resulted from supply chain bottlenecks and delays that rippled throughout the economy post-pandemic. Having worked through these challenges methodically over the past two years, retailers are loathe to stress-test contingency plans again.
“There isn’t enough capacity in the U.S. to deal with that kind of activity,” Zegras said. “It’s going to be an issue.” “There’s different levels of what this strike ends up doing from an impact standpoint, but most importantly, it’s disruptive,” Zegras said. “The consumer gets disrupted, the customers with UPS get disrupted, as well as the industry as a whole.”
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