The UPS contract with a $21-an-hour minimum wage is now official

After months of strike threats from the Teamsters, UPS workers have a new union contract. Did they win?

UPS workers just voted to approve their new union contract, with 86% of voters approving. For months, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was the dominant story in news coverage about the ongoing summer strike wave, and for good reason: If the 340,000 workers they represent at the United Parcel Service (UPS) had chosen to go out on strike this summer, it would have had a truly massive impact on the nation’s economy. UPS workers deliver over 24 million packages per day, and carry a full 6% of the country’s GDP in their instantly recognizable trucks.

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