August 19 - Teamsters Fight and Win at UPS

Labor History in 2:00 · Aug 19, 2026 · 1m

On this day in Labor History the year was 1997.

That was the day that a strike by the Teamsters Union against UPS ended with a victory for the union.

The strike had started fifteen days earlier.

More than 180,000 UPS workers participated in the action.

It was the first nationwide strike by UPS workers.

At the time UPS delivered eighty percent of all the packages in the United States.

The company known for its signature brown trucks delivered twelve million packages a day.

The key issue of the strike was that the company increasingly relied on part-time workers.

The insecurities of part time…