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More than 86% of voters ratified a five-year national agreement covering more than 340,000 unionized United Parcel Service workers. The high margin gives the Teamsters union a major organizing victory and all but averts a massive strike.

The United Parcel Service and Teamsters union announced Tuesday that negotiators struck a new five-year deal affecting about 340,000 full- and part-time workers, including at least 12,000 Louisville-area employees.

Representatives for the United Parcel Service and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters plan to resume talks Tuesday on a new five-year national contract for full- and part-time employees.

A strike by UPS workers would likely mean package delays for consumers across the country and it would shake up an increasingly competitive industry.

As the national United Parcel Service-Teamsters labor contract nears its expiration date, the union’s Louisville chapter is pushing for a new agreement on behalf of the thousands of workers it represents.

UPS employees represented by the Teamsters union have given their contract negotiators the right to call a strike if necessary.

UPS is planning ahead for the busy holiday season. The company announced Wednesday plans to hire additional employees to work in Louisville this winter.

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A cargo plane contracted by UPS went off the runway and over a hillside at a West Virginia airport Friday morning, killing two people.

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Captain Ken Hoke gives a tour of the cockpit of a 767, one of the hundreds of UPS' aircraft.