What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Will UPS Workers Join "Hot Strike Summer?"
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🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:26.7 | On the morning of July 5th, Noam Shiber got a surprising email. |
| 0:31.6 | A lot of us who covered his woke up to kind of dooling announcements from the teamsters |
| 0:36.5 | and UPS each accusing the other side of walking away for the bargaining table. |
| 0:43.1 | Noam covers labor in the workplace from the New York Times and the teamsters and UPS had |
| 0:48.2 | been closing in on a contract deal for workers. |
| 0:51.8 | But then, in the middle of negotiations, it all worked down. |
| 0:56.0 | The teamsters say that the talks broke down because UPS said it had nothing left to |
| 1:00.7 | give the company says the teamsters walked away from the table and that the company |
| 1:05.7 | was prepared to park more. |
| 1:07.8 | Now, the possibility of a UPS strike is looming. |
| 1:11.7 | 340,000 workers could walk off the job, upending package delivery across the country. |
| 1:18.8 | The image of a UPS worker in a lot of people's minds is of the guy or woman in the brown |
| 1:24.3 | uniform driving the brown truck. |
| 1:26.6 | But there are many tens of thousands of UPS workers who actually work in sorting facilities |
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