What Next TBD: Will UPS Workers Join "Hot Strike Summer?"

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Contract negotiations between the Teamsters and UPS broke down last week and now a strike looms. With time running out, can both sides reach a deal? Guest: Noam Scheiber, labor reporter for the New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
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0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:34.7	On the morning of July 5th, Noam Scheiber got a surprising email.
0:40.1	A lot of us who cover this woke up to kind of dueling announcements from the Teamsters and UPS,
0:46.4	each accusing the other side of walking away from the bargaining table.
0:51.4	Noam covers labor in the workplace from the New York Times, and the Teamsters in UPS had been closing in on a contract deal for workers.
1:00.2	But then, in the middle of negotiations, it all broke down.
1:04.4	The Teamsters say that the talks broke down because UPS said it had nothing left to give.
1:09.5	The company says the Teamsters walked away from the table
1:12.6	and that the company was prepared to park more.
1:15.6	Now, the possibility of a UPS strike is looming.
1:19.6	340,000 workers could walk off the job,
1:23.6	a bending package delivery across the country.
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