UPS union workers voted to approve the right to strike Friday, putting the nation's largest shipping company a step closer to a shutdown that could threaten the transportation of goods and commodities nationwide later this summer.
The Teamsters, the union representing 340,000 UPS employees, authorized a nationwide strike as of August 1.
The vote does not mean that a strike will happen but it gives labor leaders the right to call a walkout that could paralyze the economy, if a contract deal is not reached in negotiations by the of July.
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