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Teamsters, UPS battle may be just a warmup for future Amazon fight, experts say
July 10, 2023 // Such a protest would be the largest single-company strike in decades; the union last walked off the job at UPS in 1997 for a 15-day strike that snarled the package supply chain worldwide. But talks between the Teamsters, who represent about 340,000 UPS workers, and the company collapsed Wednesday despite appearing to have reached a deal days earlier. Each side blamed the other for walking away after marathon Independence Day negotiations failed to yield an agreement despite signs of early progress.