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This 10 page paper discusses the UPS strike in August 1997. The writer discusses the issues, the strategy used by the union, the outcome, the lessons gained from this strike and why the American public supported this strike. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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on part-time workers, their wages and their opportunities for full-time employment with the company. UPS had always told part-time workers they would be able to move into full-time employment with
the company but such a move was taking as many as ten years. The company repeatedly refused to create new full-time jobs. When the strike began, the company agreed
to create 1,000 full-time jobs, when the strike ended, the company agreed to create 10,000 full-time jobs over a five-year period. This strike gained significant public support for a
number of reasons. First, everyone is accustomed to seeing those brown trucks on the streets and those drivers had developed relationships with the customers to whom they delivered parcels. The
workers going out on strike were not strangers, they were known by millions of people. Second, a public relations campaign was put into effect months before the strike began.
The strike ended when UPS agreed to the unions demands. The tactics the company used to fight the strike all failed because not only was there amazing public support for
the workers but the employees were united. It did not become a division between full- and part-time workers; they mobilized and unified. The UPS strike demonstrated that workers can
still be successful when the issues are real and when they stick together. On August 4, 1997, 185,000 United Parcel Service (UPS) workers went on strike (Caudron,
1997). It was the largest strike in the United States in 14 years (Social Equality Organization, 1997; Smith, 1997). Orchestrated by the Teamsters, the strike lasted for 15 days and
crippled the nations ground package-delivery system (Caudron, 1997; Allen, 2000). UPS lost over $700 million in revenue during those days (Caudron, 1997). The issues were: "higher wages, better pay for
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