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The Teamsters contract was not very good in the first place end they didn't fight very hard to establish good leverage. The TA was surprise-announced from behind closed doors and their reform caucus wasn't ready to organize the "vote no" campaign they wanted to, and should have.
Socialist organizations rallied behind the Teamsters because they do not have particularly sophisticated approaches to labor. They just wanted to be vaguely pro-labor and half of them are doing a Trot rank-and-file thing without even knowing it's a Trot strategy.
A good rule of thumb is whether you had to go on strike to get a contract. No huge company is going to be nice to you and let you avoid a strike to get what you deserve. That's a psychology that only applies to a rare petty bourgeois tyrant. Large companies are anti-union machines trying to find the cheapest way to prevent union action, which has traditionally been to intimidate and to buy off union staff/play on the psychology of union staff who aren't prepared to organize a fight.
If you're in an org, I recommend introducing critical support to your labor work, just like you do with AES. Both uncritical support and pointless criticism of unions are bad strategy, but I'm amazed that I have seen zero orgs offering "friendly advice" that celebrates the power of having a union while offering a vision for how it can be better and how we should organize for the next contract. UPS workers knew they wanted more from this and there were zero socialists, so far as I could tell, saying, "yeah you're right, and you can make that a reality by joining this group and doing this work". It feels like every socialist org is playing catch-up and therefore missing the real opportunities, opportunities that require months to years of preparation.
You're certainly not wrong in you observations, in fact you're putting into words what I was observing through out the whole fiasco last year.