US Teamsters: the giant strike that didn't happen
On an average day, US corporation United Parcel Service (UPS) moves the equivalent of 6% of US and 2% of global GDP! A strike by its heavily unionised US workforce – 330,000 International Brotherhood of Teamsters members out of half a million workers – would have been an event of global significance. That seemed to be in the offing this summer, but now won’t happen. On 22 August it was announced that 86% of Teamsters members voting on a new “contract” (collective agreement), on a 58% turnout, had opted to accept. This despite a vocal and by many accounts unexpectedly vigorous No campaign. In...