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The United Parcel Service strike of 1997, led by International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) President Ron Carey, started on August 4, 1997, and involved over 185,000 Teamsters (IBT members). [1] The strike effectively shut down United Parcel Service (UPS) operations for 15 days [ 2 ] and costs UPS hundreds of millions of dollars. [ 3 ]
During the United Parcel Service strike of 1997, the company's only nationwide strike in its history, which lasted 16 days, Teamster President Ron Carey negotiated a new contract for workers. [86] In July 2023, before their contract was set to expire, a strike was threatened over union demands of increases in wages, benefits, and air ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Many of these protests and strikes have changed America.
The company grew U.S. package volume for the first time in nine quarters, but the stock plunged anyway.
(Reuters) - United Parcel Service said it plans on Tuesday to resume labor talks with the Teamsters union representing 340,000 employees, an effort to avert a strike that could roil supply chains ...
1997 Columbia University strike, strike by clerical workers at Columbia University in the United States. [49] 1997 Ontario teachers' strike, against the education policies of Mike Harris. 1997 Uniroyal strike, 2-month strike at a Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company plant in Woodburn, Indiana, United States, over layoffs. [50] [51]
1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike; 1997 United Parcel Service strike; 2018 Alabama Coca-Cola strike; 2018 Atlanta sanitation strike; 2024 Canada railway dispute; C.