The Teamsters Union is threatening to call a strike of the 340,000 United Parcel Service (UPS) workers and drivers in the USA if an agreement isn’t reached with UPS before July 31st. UPS has over 52% of the market share of parcel deliveries in the United States and bringing that to a halt would cause massive harm to businesses and citizens who rely on those deliveries for medicines, food, vital supplies.
The Teamsters want higher pay, more benefits, the usual extortions that unions indulge in under threat of debilitating strikes, and any agreement with them will result in higher shipping costs to all the rest of us, which will once again INCREASE INFLATION.
So either way this goes is a big loser for the American public and more damage to our country. There was a time when unions served a good purpose, when workers were at the mercy of big business and it was either work for them at starvation wages or starve altogether, but those times are long past. Our laws now protect the workers and people are well paid, have good working conditions and health insurance.
The unions, on the other hand, have been taken over by organized crime and should have all been shut down a long time ago.
