UPS was founded four years later by a couple of teenagers as the American Messenger Company.
The Teamsters became for a time the nation’s biggest private-sector labor union, and UPS became the world’s biggest package delivery company.
In 1997 there was a 15-day strike that “largely crippled” UPS, as The Times reported at the time.
Today UPS is the biggest employer of Teamsters, with a third of the union’s members.
Earlier in the negotiations the Teamsters put me in touch with a couple of UPS drivers so I could get a sense of the rank and file’s perspective.
Persons:
Jimmy Hoffa, Martin Luther King’s, Jason Dube, “, ”, we’re
Organizations:
Teamsters, UPS, Brotherhood of Teamsters, American Messenger Company, Teamsters ’, Times, Saturday, FedEx
Locations:
Poland, Maine