Over 90% of Teamsters who work for United Parcel Service (UPS) voted to authorize a strike on August 1st if they cannot come to an agreement on a new labor contract with the package-delivery company.
The biggest issue is how UPS will expand to offer deliveries on Sunday. The current proposal would convert all part-time workers to full-time workers, but pay them the same wage that they currently make, $15 per hour. Current full-time employees make an average of $36 per hour. The Teamsters Union believes that the newly classified workers should earn the same amount of money as current full-time workers.
UPS spokesman Glenn Zaccara said that the company "is confident in our ability to reach an agreement" with the union before the August 1st deadline. He added that "UPS and the Teamsters have already reached tentative agreements on a wide variety of non-economic issues."
According to CNN Money, UPS employs 260,00 union workers and the company's "transports equal an estimated 6% of the nation's GDP."
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