Image Credit: UPS Teamsters United

New York, July 20 (RHC)-- The shipping giant UPS has begun training non-union employees to fill in for unionized workers, after the Teamsters voted to authorize a strike over stalled contract talks.  Unless there’s a breakthrough, some 340,000 UPS workers could be on picket lines as soon as August 1st. 

Earlier this week, New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined other New York lawmakers at a Teamsters rally pledging support for what could become the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: “What we are about to step into requires solidarity from everybody — everybody — across the city, across this country, across politics, across union, across workers, because your fight right here is about being the tip of the spear for dignity for every worker in this country. Every worker in this country.”