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Unionized UPS workers voted to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a potential walkout if the company and Teamsters can't come to an agreement.

Unionized UPS workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike on Friday, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and the Teamsters can’t come to

It could create a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and the Teamsters can't agree on a new contract.

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Unionized UPS workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike on Friday, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and the Teamsters can’t come to

Unionized UPS workers voted to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a potential walkout if the company and Teamsters can't come to an agreement.

Unionized UPS workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike on Friday, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and the Teamsters can’t come to

Workers are determined to win back decades of pro-company concessions, dramatic improvements to their working conditions, wages and hours and an end to management harassment. But the Teamsters apparatus under General President Sean O’Brien, a career official being falsely recast as a rank-and-file militant, is preparing a pro-company sellout behind closed doors.

Could this be an essential phase for the rebirth of American labor?

The rapid and disorganized character of the vote, with in-person voting only, in some cases taking placing inside UPS facilities under the eye of management, guarantees that the turnout will be artificially deflated.