They better not intervene m, unless they’re going to compel UPS to meet the union’s demands
Nah just like they did with the railroad workers dispute. They will side with the corporate boards.
I hope they strike anyway. I’m tired of this shit. Corporations are never held accountable
LOL if UPS drivers strike I hope fedEx drivers join them and I hope the USPS does too
it’s torches and pitchforks for everyone lol
FedEx is, unfortunately, non-union.
Me too!
They kept working on it. Railroad workers got paid sick leave 6 weeks ago.
Biden was trying to appease corpos, he was trying not to have inflation explode and kick of a recession. Restricted supply was one of the big drivers of inflation, and more of that had every economist freaked out.
and more of that had every economist freaked out.
And? It isn’t like economics is a science or that economists are on our side. Almost all of them pushed for and apologize for the bailouts.
Social sciences are never perfect, but there is MORE than enough data points in the world to support the supply and demand model.
Scarcity inflates prices. Humans have literally been documenting this economic phenomenon for over 2000 years.
I agree social sciences are not perfect but given that Economics isn’t a science I am not seeing the relevance. My brother-in-law is a Lincoln Park fan and I like beer. Do you really need a degree to mindlessly repeat whatever the banks want you to repeat to the middle class that bailed them out? Chatgpt can do it. If you study economics now they are falling over themselves begging for another bank bailout.
Scarcity inflates prices.
In that case asbestos insulated houses with lead paint must be increasing in value.
I’m referring to the scarcity of goods people want to and need to buy… asbestos is something people actively try to avoid.
Seems like the argument is changing to me. But whatever, how do you factor in that demand can create its own supply?
If they do interfere I hope the Teamsters go full Teamster on the government.
Why would they? They’re a private company, the government has absolutely zero business interfering in a labor dispute with private companies, unless of course they want to acknowledge that they do have power over private businesses like these to regulate them. In which case they should fucking nationalize them and throw the execute board in jail.
You mean like when they intervened when the rail workers tried to go on strike?
https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-rail-workers-strike-bernie-sanders-congress-paid-leave
I very much dislike how the administration handled the rail strike. But it is worth noting the outcome of that
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-unionized-us-rail-workers-now-have-new-sick-leave-2023-06-05/
It is fucking bullshit to the highest extreme that four days of PSL is a major win but… yeah.
The admin didn’t abandon the workers. They definitely took away their strongest weapon, but there are also arguments that that was the right thing to do. Because if UPS goes on strike? The entire country is shutting down. And we, the people, are too stupid to understand the reason for the strike and will instead just blame the people pissing in bottles for not working harder (this country DOES have a long history of demanding brown people work harder…).
That said: Rail workers are too “in the background” for people to notice and we have been conditioned to expect “supply chain” problems. Whereas UPS et al are the folk we see every day. So maybe a strike will actually work because people will see where the chain fell apart rather than just “Ugh. Fucking Mom and Pop’s hardware has no screws”
Yeah I think the outcome and follow up from the administration should definitely be noted with the rail workers situation.
Conservatives fight against progress at every possible turn and we blame everyone else for not getting past the roadblocks those fuckers have put up.
Yup, they should have nationalized those assholes for continuing to drive railroads into the ground. They’re run by bsolute total incompetents
They interfered when the rail workers went on strike, why wouldn’t they interfere with UPS? They’re both logistics corporations, and the whole point with the rail strike interference was to keep goods moving to where they need to be.
I don’t think Biden will intervene in this case. It’s one company that’s going on strike, not a whole system of transportation. The economic impact will be significant but limited, as there are others that will pick up what slack they can.
Of course, this means that to preserve the right to strike we need to break companies up so they’re not too big to fail.
I can tell you right now no can pick up the slack fedex maybe can take an extra 600k in the their system. Put it in perspective that’s the normal for the memphis night sort. It going to be very ugly.
The president should have nothing except an unofficial advisory role, at best, about any strike unless it is a total war situation. It is not a proscribed power.
