20,000 Jobs Gone: UPS Layoffs Reveal a Bigger Crisis at the Heart of American Labor and Trade
In what has become one of the most significant corporate layoff announcements of the year, United Parcel Service (UPS) revealed plans to cut 20,000 jobs by the end of 2025. The move, delivered during its Q1 earnings call, is being attributed to a perfect storm of rising operational costs, declining shipping volume, and policy-driven market disruption—including the reimplementation of Trump-era…