In August of 1997, UPS, backed by the International Brothehood of Teamsters, went on a strike that lasted for 15 days. The Teamsters, lead by then president Ron Carey, wanted to make some of the part time positions (held by 58% of UPS workers) into full-time positions, end the subcontracting of jobs, and increase wages. UPS responded by saying this was a way to distract from teh fact that they were going to withdraw from the teamster pension fund and create their own UPS fund.
In the end, an agreement was reached. UPS management agreed to raise the base wage of part timers, but not to raise the number of full time jobs. They did not put anything into the agreement about pension funds.
