{"id":1979426,"date":"2023-07-21T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ups-strike-organizations-ask-white-house-to-intervene-to-prevent-strike-that-could-cost-billions\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:05:50","slug":"ups-strike-organizations-ask-white-house-to-intervene-to-prevent-strike-that-could-cost-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ups-strike-organizations-ask-white-house-to-intervene-to-prevent-strike-that-could-cost-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizations urge White House to intervene in UPS strike to avert costly consequences."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fups-strike-organizations-ask-white-house-to-intervene-to-prevent-strike-that-could-cost-billions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979426&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Coalition Urges Biden Administration to Intervene in UPS Strike<\/h2>\n<p>With less than two weeks until the United Parcel Service\u200d strike,\u200b a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dark-money-fuels-push-to-ditch-filibuster\/\" title=\"Dark Money Fuels Push to Ditch Filibuster\">coalition led<\/a> by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is calling on the Biden administration to take action in the labor conflict between the delivery company \u200cand the International \u2064Brotherhood of \u2062Teamsters.<\/p>\n<p>About 340,000 UPS \u2064workers, represented by the Teamsters, are planning to walk out of their jobs on Aug. 1 if negotiations for \u2063a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deafening-silence-top-democrats-hush-as-left-wing-kelloggs-company-set-to-replace-american-union-workers\/\" title=\"Deafening Silence: Top Democrats Hush as Left-Wing Kellogg's Company Set to Replace American Union Workers\">labor contract<\/a> do not reach an \u2063agreement by then. Contract negotiations\u2063 between UPS and Teamsters are set to resume next week after both sides blamed each other for \u2064walking out\u200c of talks earlier this month.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Potential Strike<\/h3>\n<p>More than 250 organizations have\u200d signed a letter expressing their worries about the likely strike.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGiven the debilitating impact of a strike on American families and the economy, we urge \u200cyour Administration to provide the support\u200d necessary to help the parties reach a new agreement by \u2063the August 1 deadline,\u201d\u2064 the letter read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter also highlights the potential harm the \u2063strike \u2063could cause to the \u2064U.S. economy. UPS moves\u200d $3.8 billion in \u200cgoods\u2062 per day, equivalent \u200cto about 20 million packages. If the strike lasts\u200c for 15 days, the\u2064 American economy could lose $55.5 billion, according to a study cited \u2063in the letter. Even just five days of strike action could cost $15.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if UPS were to lose more than half of its workforce in the event of a strike, its competitors would\u200b not be able\u2062 to pick up \u200dthe\u200c slack.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA Teamsters strike against UPS could be the costliest such strike in\u200b at least a century, with significant and lasting harm for small businesses and online retailers,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ups-strike-organizations-ask-white-house-to-intervene-to-prevent-strike-that-could-cost-billions\/\" title=\"Organizations urge White House to intervene in UPS strike to avert costly consequences.\">concerned signatories include<\/a> the Association of American Railroads, American Public Transportation Association, \u200band state and local chambers \u2064from 47 states, among many other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition\u2019s concerns come as\u200c the \u200dTeamsters president said earlier this week that the White House \u2064will not intervene in the UPS labor dispute upon \u200bhis request. The Biden administration\u200b has not publicly spoken on the issue itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the UPS strike looming, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its coalition have implored the Biden administration to step in. In a letter, they requested intervention in the labor dispute between UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents around 340,000 workers. Time is running out, as the strike is just two weeks away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1979427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}