Local workers in Jacksonville held signs and marched as part of a “practice picket” today outside the UPS center along Pritchard Road on the city’s Westside.
With an Aug. 1 deadline approaching, 340,000 employees nationwide are preparing to picket when the five-year contract between the nation’s largest trucking company and the labor union comes to an end.Local workers in Jacksonville are getting ready in case negotiations fail. About two dozen workers held a “practice picket” for about half an hour Wednesday outside the UPS center along Pritchard Road on the city’s Westside.
“Clearly, we hope that a strike is the last resort. We hope that the negotiating committee along with the members on the negotiating committee for UPS are actually able to reach a tentative agreement, but if they don’t, we are certainly going to utilize our authority to move forward with what we feel is necessary,” Cardona said.
Teamsters leadership said disagreements over union demands like a pay raise for part-time workers stalled negotiations last week.On its website, UPS says it was the Teamsters who halted talks, writing “We have encouraged the Teamsters to return to the table to continue building on the significant progress we have made.”
For now, customers can still expect their package deliveries through July. But if a strike happens, the future of deliveries is unclear.Slower delivery times because other companies like FedEx and the United States Postal Service would deal with a sudden influx of UPS packagesEconomics Professor Jadrian Wooten said a strike that ends up lasting a while could have a broader expect than what people think.
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