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The Teamsters said Wednesday that high-stakes talks with UPS over a new contract for more than 340,000 workers have fallen apart after the company presented an offer that union negotiators deemed badly inadequate.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UPS is a private company, they aren't subject to the RLA and nothing in Taft-Hartley has anything to say about a single union going on strike.

USPS is the federal service operating like a business, and since they're federal employees they aren't supposed to go on strike, however that didn't stop them in the 70s.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Taft-Hartley applies if the president determines that the strike would pose a significant economic impact. It's actually pretty broad in that respect - been used against miners n shit. After the last betrayal I wouldn't put it past this administration