Pepere Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 At the end of the month, UPS’s contract with the union expires. Hopefully they can come to an agreement before hand avoiding a strike… But, it bears mentioning if you are planning on placing an order that gets shipped, it would be worthwhile sooner than later. Even if a company does not use UPS, remaining shipping companies do not have enough capacity to make up the loss of UPS if the do end up striking. Other companies may well see delays. One might reconsider ordering live fish and shrimp during or immediately before a potential strike.. The last time UPS struck was in the late 90s well before the dramatic rise in online ordering.. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 On 7/12/2023 at 11:33 AM, Pepere said: At the end of the month, UPS’s contract with the union expires. Hopefully they can come to an agreement before hand avoiding a strike… But, it bears mentioning if you are planning on placing an order that gets shipped, it would be worthwhile sooner than later. Even if a company does not use UPS, remaining shipping companies do not have enough capacity to make up the loss of UPS if the do end up striking. Other companies may well see delays. One might reconsider ordering live fish and shrimp during or immediately before a potential strike.. The last time UPS struck was in the late 90s well before the dramatic rise in online ordering.. ^^ THIS IS CORRECT ^^ I've been networking with people I know whose livelihood depends on fish shipping reliably, quickly, not sitting on hot tarmacs for extra days, etc. This has all the potential of becomming a HOT MESS. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 Very good thought to post this as a PSA for everyone. If you know anyone who ships, be sure to let them know! @Bentley Pascoemmaybe a video idea! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepere Posted July 13 Author Share Posted July 13 (edited) The last UPS strike only lasted 2 weeks. while past performance is no guarantee of future performance, it bears consideration that even a 2 week strike would disrupt things significantly and resumption of service is not an instantaneous return to normal. There remains a backlog that needs to work through the system… And granted, shipping companies ramp up for the holiday shopping crunch, but that is a repeatable and known event…. The uncertainty of whether a UPS Strike will actually occur or not and how long it might last mitigates against increasing capacity for competitors… Edited July 13 by Pepere 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Looks like this just got tentatively sorted out today. No extra long stays on hot tarmacs. But I'll wager prices will bump up to compensate. Probably best case scenario. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 @Fish Folk nice! Thanks for the update. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/business/ups-teamsters-deal-strike/index.html Quote The tentative agreement still needs to be ratified by about 340,000 Teamsters at UPS to end the threat of a strike altogether. That ratification process will take a little more than three weeks. A no vote by membership could still trigger a strike, but that walkout would now take place in late August, not the original August 1 strike deadline. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepere Posted July 25 Author Share Posted July 25 Given that the union conceded nothing, I would be surprised if membership fails to ratify. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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