UPS’s 11,000 Freight Drivers to Vote on New Deal to Avoid Strike
- Workers will cast ballots Nov. 9-11 on final offer, union says
- Teamsters see ‘no other options’ if employees say no again
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United Parcel Service Inc.’s unionized freight drivers will vote next month on a final contract deal from the company after they spurned an earlier offer and raised the risk of a labor disruption.
A second rejection would force a strike of about 11,000 workers, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said in a statement on its website. The freight drivers, who are separate from UPS’s larger group of parcel workers, will vote on the “last, best and final” contract proposal on Nov. 9 to Nov. 11, the union said. An extension to the current labor agreement ends on Nov. 12.