Article: United Parcel Service, Teamsters Begin Talks over New Contract.

By Patrick Danner, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 12--The last time United Parcel Service and the Teamsters union met at the bargaining table, negotiations deteriorated into a 15-day strike that turned particularly ugly in South Florida.

Angry strikers in Miami assaulted a UPS driver who had crossed the picket line, beating and stabbing him repeatedly with an ice pick.

Five years later, the Atlanta-based package-delivery company and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have begun talks on a new contract. Both sides vow things will be different this time around.

"It was a horrible outcome" in 1997, ...

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