3,800 UPS workers strike in Canada
About 3,800 United Parcel Service workers in Canada went on strike yesterday, refusing the shipper’s new collective bargaining agreement offers, according to Teamsters Canada. UPS said it would deliver all packages already in transit but suspended all customer pickups within Canada as well as ground shipments into the country. The Canadian employees’ contract expired July 31. UPS met with the union during the past five months, and Canadian Teamsters management entered into a handshake agreement about a month ago. The company and union are scheduled to meet again next month under the guidance of the National Mediation Board, the federal agency that governs the airline and railroad industries in the United States.
