Adam Sobel: How would a UPS strike benefit the working class in general? He says it could inspire people to organize and use leverage that they didn't know they had. The question is really like, which side are you on?, he asks. Sobel: If there is a strike, workers will take control of their own stories. They will win the hearts of minds of the public.
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.