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So why is a strike looming?  \nBy Jennifer Gonnerman  \nJanuary 9, 2023  \n[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/can-ups-still-deliver-a-middle-class-life](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/can-ups-still-deliver-a-middle-class-life) 1/36  \n1/17/23, 2:54 PM UPS and the Package Wars | The New Yorker  \nAntoine Andrews making deliveries in Bay Ridge. He now splits his workweek between his UPS rounds and his organizingfor the Teamsters. Photographs by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker  \n[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/can-ups-still-deliver-a-middle-class-life](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/can-ups-still-deliver-a-middle-class-life) 2/36  \n1/17/23, 2:54 PM UPS and the Package Wars | The New Yorker  \nF  \nor nearly twenty years, Antoine Andrews has been driving a UPS route in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge. When he rings the bell ofa house one  \nafternoon, the customer greets him with a ȩst bump: “What’s up, bro?”When he drops off a package at Walgreens, he recognizes an elderly man in the checkoutline. The man once worked in a neighborhood bar, and when Andrews used to walk in with a delivery the man always offered him a beer—“On the house!”—which Andrews would decline. As he walks out of Walgreens, he taps the man on the shoulder and says,“Nice to see you!”All day long, Andrews waves to people he knows, and they wave back. He later jokes that, when he’s on his route,“I feel like I’m running for office, like I’m on the podium and I’m waving with both hands.”  \nAndrews is forty-six years old, slim and bald, with a salt-and-pepper beard, which is fairly new, because, until 2020, UPS prohibited its drivers from having beards. Before his workday ends, he has to deliver—or attempt to deliver—each of the hundred and forty parcels in the back of his package car. Hour after hour, he does the dance of the UPS driver: driving a block or two, turning off the ignition, unbuckling his seat belt, pulling in his sideview mirror, searching in the back for parcels, climbing out, delivering them to customers. He has delivered just about everything, from dog food to exercise bicycles to fake Christmas trees. Another driver might have grown tired of this job, but Andrews has not.“I take pride in servicing my customers,” he told me,“and my customers and I have a great relationship.”  \nTwenty-six years ago, the sort of friendly rapport that he and many UPS drivers have with their customers helped fuel public support for UPS’s workers when they went on strike with their union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. 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UPS drivers have the sort of job that has become increasingly difficult to ȩnd, one that does not require a college degree but offers middle-class pay, good health-care beneȩts, and a pension. Today, a UPS package-car driver starts at twenty-one dollars an hour; a driver with fo","cbCaidAGti08Qfer","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidAGti08Qfer","pdf",2854176,36,"English","# UPS and the Package Wars\n## Antoine Andrews and UPS delivery work\n## Teamsters strike threat and contract deadline\n## Inside workers vs. drivers: pay and working conditions","[{\"question\":\"What job does Antoine Andrews do for UPS, and how is his work described?\",\"answer\":\"Andrews drives a UPS route in Bay Ridge and delivers around 140 parcels per day. 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