The biggest sin in the world is to perceive someone who is not, I don't know, didn't get a four year college degree in like worthy enough. And they make that much because they have good unions. Like at UPS specifically, we've been talking about 60% of the workforce is part time and many of them receive poverty wages. Meanwhile, these articles either completely exclude or put it at the second to last paragraph that like UPS made $100 billion in revenue last year, nearly $14 billion in profit and the CEO, Carol Tomay,. She made $19 million.
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.