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UPS workers hold placards reading "Just Practicing for a Just Contract" at a practice picket held by the Teamsters Union on July 19, 2023, in Los Angeles, California, ahead of the August 1st deadline for the Teamsters and UPS to reach an agreement on a new contract.

Economy and Inequality

UPS and Teamsters reach tentative agreement, but is a strike still possible?

by Maximillian Alvarez and Teddy Ostrow July 28, 2023August 21, 2023

Politics and Movements: US

UPS and Teamsters have reached a tentative deal

by Teddy Ostrow and Stephen Franklin July 25, 2023July 26, 2023

United Parcel Services (UPS) workers walk a 'practice picket line' on July 7, 2023, in the Queens borough of New York City, ahead of a possible UPS strike.

Economy and Inequality

Union freight has hit rock bottom. Can the Teamsters turn it around?

by Teddy Ostrow July 21, 2023March 13, 2024

A group of UAW workers in matching red shirts stand together in a group, holding signs demanding a fair contract.

United Auto Workers could strike next after Teamsters

by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh July 13, 2023March 13, 2024

A UPS worker on a winter's day pushing a cart full of packages.

UPS-Teamsters contract negotiations collapse—what gig work has to do with it

by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh July 7, 2023March 13, 2024

Workers from multiple unions rally together at 12th Street and Figueroa on Friday, May 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

Workers are transforming America’s most powerful unions into fighting machines. Yours may be next.

by Teddy Ostrow June 26, 2023June 26, 2023

A UPS delivery driver unloads packages out of the back of a delivery truck.

UPS Teamsters just voted to strike. What’s next?

by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh June 23, 2023March 14, 2024

In the foreground, Amazon Labor Union president Christian Smalls can be seen out of the camera's focus. Behind him, in focus, is Sean O'Brien. Sean is middle-aged, bald, bespectacled, and white. He has a blue suit on a maroon tie.

The Teamsters take Amazon

by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh June 8, 2023March 14, 2024

Two Black women stand at a conveyer belt where packages of various sizes are coming down a series of chutes and tubes. The woman in the foreground is wearing a blue shirt, and her arms are somewhat blurred from the speed of her sorting the packages. Her mouth is open mid-speech. In the background, her coworker laughs, apparently responding to something she has heard.

For women workers at UPS, fighting the bosses means fighting the patriarchy

by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh June 1, 2023March 14, 2024

Economy and Inequality

UPS and the Logistics Revolution

by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh May 19, 2023May 19, 2023