A strike is worker's principal leverage over the employer when they are pushed to the edge. In the case of UPS, workers are dying from heat. Workers don't get to see their children because they have to leave before they get up and they get back when they're asleep. unity and solidarity can be built around these experiences as workers.
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.