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Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by sparrish on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:41PM (#17249847)
In 1997, the 15-day strike cost 15k UPS jobs.

For the drivers, that is a lot to lose.

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Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by kevinh on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:56PM (#17249975)
The stakes are what give both the union and the business leverage in the negotiations.
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Re:UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized... by spectra72 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:09PM (#17250639)
I was working for UPS during that strike. We didn't lose a lot of drivers from what I recall because they had relatively nice hourly wages to come back to and could weather the storm a bit.

We lost almost the entire load/unload staff though. The grunts in the truck at 12am unloading semi-truck after semi-truck worth of boxes. They were only getting ~$8/hr and couldn't afford to be out for 2 weeks. Out of 12 guys on the team I supervised I think 2 came back.

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