UPS and the Package Wars

The company offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming?
Antoine Andrews pushes a collection of packages on wheels in Bay Ridge.
Antoine Andrews making deliveries in Bay Ridge. He now splits his workweek between his UPS rounds and his organizing for the Teamsters.Photographs by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker
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For nearly twenty years, Antoine Andrews has been driving a UPS route in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge. When he rings the bell of a house one afternoon, the customer greets him with a fist bump: “What’s up, bro?” When he drops off a package at Walgreens, he recognizes an elderly man in the checkout line. The man once worked in a neighborhood bar