Did TFI CEO extend olive branch to Teamsters before UPS Freight deal?

A UPS employee loads boxes. Thousands of UPS employees, represented by the Teamsters, will join TFI International as part of the acquisition of UPS Freight.

Three months before TFI International (NYSE:TFII) announced the acquisition of UPS’ (NYSE:UPS) freight business, CEO Alain Bedard expressed a willingness to buy a unionized less-than-truckload operation and lauded the performance of the parcel giant with the Teamsters – and his own company’s experience with organized labor in Canada.

“If you look at the largest trucking company in the world, they’re unionized with the Teamsters and they do a fantastic job,” Bedard told financial analysts in...

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