Teamsters Reach a Deal With UPS, Tentatively Averting a Difficult Strike

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UPS has avoided a strike only one day after 340,000 employees threatened to walk out over an unsustainable pay rate for part-time workers. The Teamsters Union, which represents UPS workers, opened contract negotiations on Tuesday to secure higher pay, but the union vowed to go on strike if a deal could not be reached…

UPS is on the brink of a strike. A 10-day work disruption would be the costliest in modern history.

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UPS workers walk a 'practice picket line' on July 7, 2023.

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Financial fraudsters are targeting postal workers to steal their mailbox keys, so USPS is trying something new

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The postmaster general is the second-highest-paid federal employee — and other weird facts about the USPS leader

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Postal workers are being attacked by dogs so much that they must avoid delivery in certain areas forcing people to pick up their own mail

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Postal workers suffer more than 5,400 dog attacks every year.

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This package shipped from Mississippi to Michigan — via Puerto Rico. Here's why some shipments go on circuitous journeys.

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Out of the roughly 59 million packages shipped every day in the US, an estimated 150,000 go astray.

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