Current Events > UPS pilots won't fly if Teamsters strike

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-pilots-wont-fly-if-teamsters-strike

The union representing UPS pilots says they will not cross picket lines if Teamsters drivers and package sorters walk off the job when the current contract expires Aug. 1, resulting in the immediate shutdown of the express logistics companys global air operations.

UPS (NYSE: UPS) has 3,300 pilots who are represented by the Independent Pilots Association (IPA), a separate union from the Teamsters.

If the Teamsters are on strike, we will honor that strike and we will not fly, IPA spokesman Brian Gaudet told FreightWaves.

UPS pilots are allowed to honor primary picket lines and did that for 16 days during the Teamsters strike in 1997.

Even with freighters in service, a strike by 340,000 package car drivers, truck drivers and warehouse workers would effectively ground most UPS Airlines operations because there would be few, if any, personnel to load and unload aircraft, process packages and deliver them to and from airport facilities. UPS says it is training nonunion employees to handle packages in the event there is a labor disruption. Parcel consulting firm ShipMatrix estimates management could move about 22% of the 18.6 million daily parcels in its system through contingency plans.

The Teamsters union has a $300 million to $350 million fund to support workers with strike pay, but UPS pilots who dont report to work will bear the burden on their own.

My cousin flies for them after he left the Air Force.

But then again fuck the Teamsters.