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AUPE News & Updates
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Member Update: Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004
Teamsters and UPS Canada reach
deal, ending brief strike
EDMONTON — A tentative agreement has been reached between
the Teamsters Union and United Parcel Service Canada, ending a 24-hour
strike by approximately 3,800 UPS Canada employees.
The Teamsters Union and UPS Canada both announced the agreement
on their Websites.
The Teamsters said on the union’s Website that the UPS Canada
employees’ negotiating team had decided the employer’s
latest offer was acceptable.
The offer will be submitted to the members shortly, the union said.
As a result, work will resume at UPS centres throughout Canada,
the Teamsters said.
UPS Canada said on its Website that, effective immediately, UPS
will resume the pickup and delivery of all domestic, U.S. and worldwide
shipments.
Service guarantees will be reinstated for packages picked up beginning
Nov. 24, UPS said.
The Canadian Press news agency reported that the agreement was reached
soon after the pilot’s union at United Parcel Service Inc.,
UPS Canada’s U.S. parent company, announced it would honour
picket lines in the United States if Teamsters there tried to block
shipments coming out of Canada.
CP reported that the Independent Pilots Association said UPS had
moved management pilots into Canada from the United States “in
an attempt to break the strike by having non-union pilots fly goods
out of Canada.”
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