Teamsters at UPS are close to the biggest strike in recent memory | Fast Company

It’s already been a hot strike summer, with thousands of workers in different industries walking off the job to protest poor working conditions or demand their bosses come to the negotiating table and hammer out a fair union contract. But we’re all still waiting to find out what will happen with what could be the biggest strike of the year—frankly, of the past several decades.

The Teamsters union is the largest in the nation, representing 1.2 million logistics workers across the U.S. and Canada. They are currently in the middle of contentious contract negotiations with the United Parcel Service, a corporation that employs 340,000 Teamster package delivery and warehouse workers.

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