Higher prices and long wait times are all but certain if there is an impasse.
"Something's got to give," Thomas Goldsby, logistics chairman in the Supply Chain Management Department at the University of Tennessee, told The Associated Press. "The python can't swallow the alligator, and that's going to be felt by all of us."
UPS said this month that it will temporarily begin training nonunion employees in the U.S. to step in should there be a strike. Beyond shipping and supply implications, a union win at UPS could have significance for organized labor across industries. UPS's contract talks arrive amid other prominent labor campaigns at Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe's and other companies -- as well as the current writers and actors' strikes seen in Hollywood.
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