Teamsters Union and UPS accuse h
other of abandoning labor negotiations.
UPS drivers are already
practicing to strike today.
Drivers across the country coule
seen yielding signs that said jt
practicing for a just contract.
Carter Evans shares what they're
asking for. UPS
Gil Guzman has been driving for UPS for
23 years. Did you vote to authoe
the strike? I did.
We're the best in the business,
and it's how to get paid like i.
He's one of 330,000 employees who want wage
increases and more fulltime jobs. We work
hard. We work hard for our job.
We work hard for this company.
We move this country around.
U, PS:. Is the biggest shipping
company in the US Around 6% of e
nation's gross domestic product
passes through its brown vans.
Nationwide, drivers deliver nearly 19
million packages every single d.
And a halt in operations would e
major supply chain disruptions.
The reason we call the chain
is that it's so integrated.
So any strike especially the log
lasting strike could have a devastating,
in fact, both of the summer
back to schools and upcoming holidays,
the boom in online shopping during the
pandemic is still going strong resulting
in record profits for the compa.
So why not share with your employees?
If you could say one thing to te
people who are in the negotiating room,
what would you want them to know from you?
Just don't mess it up.
You got 330,000 strong ups,
errs that give their blood,
sweat and tears for this
company and both sides.
This is work it out and and make it happen
now. A strike is not a guarantet
this point and UPS told us thatt
is aligned with its workers on y
key issues and that the companys
committed to reaching a deal before their
contract expires at the end of .
Other sticking points and negotiations
are delivery truck surveillance cameras
and equal wages for working the same job.
Now U PS: says the technology
used to monitor their drivers
movements is for their safety.
Describing the devices as a
sensor rather than a camera,
The company maintains that its latest
contract offer is historic and that its
drivers are the best paid in the country.
Now, one area that the Teamsters and U PS:.
Seem to have found common ground
on is air conditioning.
The company says it will make se
all of its trucks have a C but
is it really true that no U PS:.
Truck currently has air conditig
area and detail explains why
The company has not moved to put
in cooling systems before.
Now This
U PS:. Driver collapsed in the
heat in front of a home in Ariz,
captured on a doorbell video ca.
The homeowner blames it on the lack of a C.
They don't have a C in those tr.
His safety is my concern. Many
people on social media,
including a U PS:.
Driver on TikTok have made
the same claim and verify.
Viewer Kim asked us to confirm
whether that was true or false.
So let's verify.
Our sources are the United Parcel Service,
the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
the labor union representing
350,000 U PS: workers,
and U PS: driver Charles Amura
from Mountain Burn in New York,
who should verify the inside of his truck.
We have the doors open because
there is no there's no A/C.
Both UPS and the union confirmed
that UPS delivery trucks do not
have air conditioning installed.
Zamora says working in the extreme heat
without A/C takes a toll on his body.
Sometimes you can really
breathe because you're so hot.
In a July 20th Facebook post,
the Teamsters discussed the
trucks lack of air conditioning,
writing that UPS has claimed
that air conditioning would be
ineffective in cooling down the
company's package delivery truc.
A UPS spokesperson told Verify the company's
delivery trucks make frequent s,
which requires the engine to be turned
off and the doors to be opened d
closed about 130 times a day on average.
Their solution?
U PS:, Says it offers fans
to drivers upon request,
adding We have studied heat mitigation
with our vehicles and integrated
forced air systems with ventingo
create airflow around the drived
cargo areas so we can verify No U PS:.
Delivery trucks don't have air conditioning.
Again, if the tentative deal
is agreed on, all U PS:.
Trucks will get air conditioning
trucks purchase starting next y.
We'll have a C heat Shields
and additional fans.
The company says existing trucks and vans
will be fitted with air induction systems.
Now, the last U PS:.
Worker strike happened in 1997.
It lasted for 15 days and it cot
the company $850 million in los.
Well, since then,
the company has grown significantly in size,
and a stoppage is expected to ce
even greater losses for the com.
With U PS:.
Shipping 24 million packages
on an average day,
higher prices and long wait times are
all but certain if there is an impasse.
Across the country,
other workers are striking.
Thousands of hotel workers in
Southern California walked off e
job at the beginning of this mo.
They're just the latest headed
to the picket line as the summer
of strikes heats up in Hollywoo.
Hotel employees, including bell,
front desk attendants and cooks,
walked off the job in Los Angel.
Everything is really expensive.
A lot of us just leave, check by check.
The contract between the union
representing thousands of hospitality
employees and more than 60 hotels lapsed
this weekend with workers demang
higher wages and better benefit.
Are things difficult for you
right now in this economy?
Definitely very difficult.
We deserve more than whether Giving us
picket lines are growing across the US.
Hollywood writers have been offe
job for two months and could soe
joined by actors who are now ate
negotiating table with studio producers.
We generate massive amounts of profit
for large multinational corporas
and we just want a fair share.
Thousands of Starbucks employees went
on strike in the last week after their
union allege the company would not let
some stores decorate for Pride Month.
In a statement,
representatives for the hotels y
hotels will continue to operate
during this work stoppage.
Now if the actors do strike,
joining the writers,
it will be history making.
Two Hollywood unions walked outt
the same time only once before.
That was in 1960, when the prest
of the Actors Guild was Ronald Reagan.
Again, if UPS and Teamsters don't reach
a contract agreement by July 31,
prepare for a slowdown and
shipping cost increases.
We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
WF&amp;Y News Two at Six is next.