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What a load of anti-worker propaganda. CNN would like you to think workers are obliged to work at wherever rate UPS offers because it's in the interest of "the

What a load of anti-worker propaganda. CNN would like you to think workers are obliged to work at wherever rate UPS offers because it's in the interest of "the economy". If UPS failed to reach a contract with any other key supplier they would be blasted by the press. UPS management has had plenty of time to negotiate. Management is playing a game pushing to the limit of a strike, and maybe into a strike, to get workers scared they'll lose a paycheck and accept a worse deal

graypegg 3y ago
This has been strike busting 101 since time immemorial. *The whole point* of a strike is to prove how much of a company will fall apart with out labour. It makes management liable for the impending break down because the strikers/union will have made a very public list of demands and reasons for the strike, so it’s on management to figure something out. Resolving problems with concrete decisions is their job after all, like you said about contracts. However if management leaves it as long as possible so the public gets a taste of the breakdown, they can try and lean public sentiment towards them, painting the workers as “causing” the problem. It’s not their ineffectiveness in resolving a dispute that caused it, it’s those workers who don’t have any respect for the economy/consumers/YOU! CNN is reporting the news here, this WILL seriously affect things, but they’ve taken the angle that UPS corporate was hoping for.
- pempem 3y ago
  I think CNN knows this and is hard pressed to push the envelope further than they have. They note that the company is doing tremendously well at least three times. They also mention that even Deutsche Bank says the company can handle increasing wages. (the bank identifies it as due to inflation not profit, but I'll take my wins where I can) More than that, they have reported in the past on the record earnings from last year: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/business/ups-earnings/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/business/ups-earnings/index.h...

graypegg 3y ago

This has been strike busting 101 since time immemorial. *The whole point* of a strike is to prove how much of a company will fall apart with out labour. It makes management liable for the impending break down because the strikers/union will have made a very public list of demands and reasons for the strike, so it’s on management to figure something out. Resolving problems with concrete decisions is their job after all, like you said about contracts. However if management leaves it as long as possible so the public gets a taste of the breakdown, they can try and lean public sentiment towards them, painting the workers as “causing” the problem. It’s not their ineffectiveness in resolving a dispute that caused it, it’s those workers who don’t have any respect for the economy/consumers/YOU! CNN is reporting the news here, this WILL seriously affect things, but they’ve taken the angle that UPS corporate was hoping for.

pempem 3y ago
I think CNN knows this and is hard pressed to push the envelope further than they have. They note that the company is doing tremendously well at least three times. They also mention that even Deutsche Bank says the company can handle increasing wages. (the bank identifies it as due to inflation not profit, but I'll take my wins where I can) More than that, they have reported in the past on the record earnings from last year: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/business/ups-earnings/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/business/ups-earnings/index.h...