The union leadership has said if their demands are not met in a new contract by August 1st, then they'll strike. And you know, that could be the largest strike against a single employer in US history. The teamsters had to walk away from the bargaining table because the UPS counter proposal was just awful,. It was always going to be a toilet paper proposal.
In this public News Brief, we break down media coverage of the potential UPS strike––and the trend more broadly in labor coverage––that paints a strike as something that harms "the consumer" or "the economy" rather than what it is: the only thing that gives workers any power.
Our guest is writer and media analyst Teddy Ostrow, host of The Upsurge podcast.