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UPS workers in Jacksonville prepare for strike

Published on July 12, 2023 at 12:01 pm
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UPS workers could go on strike for the first time since 1997 if they can’t reach a new contract deal by the end of the month.

The action could slow the delivery of packages, increase shipping costs and disrupt the supply chain for businesses.

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Workers in Jacksonville are getting ready in case negotiations fail. About two dozen workers held a “practice picket” for about a half-hour Wednesday outside the UPS center on Pritchard Road. They held signs, marched and chanted like workers in other cities have been doing in recent weeks.

Read the rest of this story at News4Jax, a Jacksonville Today news partner.


author image Aaron Farrar joins News4Jax as a weekend morning reporter, after working a year at WFXR in Roanoke, Virginia, as a morning news reporter and primary fill-in anchor. Before that, he spent two years as a multimedia journalist at WTVC in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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