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UPS strike deal: What's next?
August 19, 1997
Web posted at: 10:44 a.m. EDT (1444 GMT)(CNN) -- Now that negotiators for United Parcel Service and the Teamsters have agreed on a tentative contract, here's what happens next:
- Union leaders from around the country will review the deal and are expected to give their approval, possibly sometime on Tuesday. Once that happens, final ratification from the union's 185,000 UPS employees will be by mail ballot, a process expected to take several weeks.
- As soon as union leaders approve the five-year plan, UPS says it will start the process of resuming normal service to its customers. That could begin "as early as tomorrow, maybe even late this evening," company spokesman Ken Sternad said Tuesday. It would still take "a couple of days" to completely restore operations, he added.
- The company warns that the business it lost permanently as a result of the walkout could lead to the loss of up to 15,000 Teamster jobs. Layoffs would be determined by worker seniority and locations where the lost business was greatest, Sternad said.
- UPS says it will work as quickly as possible to clear out a backlog of undelivered packages. "We still have some volume in our system that needs to be cleaned out from before the strike," Sternad said. "But we'd begin to pick up packages very quickly and try to get up to speed as quickly as we could."
- Newsmaker Profile: Ron Carey -- Union Leader, Teamsters
- Newsmaker Profile: James P. Kelly -- CEO, UPS
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