'A successful negotiation or a strike...would demonstrate that workers have truly gained leverage over employers after three pandemic years and a year of inflation fueled by corporate profiteering.' Column by hiltzikm:
That may be why the most important development in the field has operated under the radar until very recently. We’re talking about the contract talks between United Parcel Service and about 340,000 members of the Teamsters union.strike if no deal is reached by July 31
. It could also demonstrate the value of union solidarity in the face of determined resistance by employers., the notion that American workers have gained an edge over employers in the pandemic’s wake has been wildly overstated.showing that among the 38 developed nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. ranked at or near the bottom on measures of wage policies including minimum wages , rights to organize and worker protections .
Given U.S. law and past practice, piecemeal organizing drives in discrete workplaces such as Starbucks stores always face an uphill battle.Even Federal Reserve economists know that wages had no effect on inflation. But that doesn’t stop Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell from harping on labor costs and ignoring the real culprits.
That stance has already yielded accords on numerous noneconomic issues. The most important may be the company’s agreement to install heat shields and air conditioning in its delivery vehicles, in which summertime temperatures can soar higher than 100 degrees;Last summer, driver Esteban Chavez Jr. died from what“We have a new person in charge,” says Viviana Gonzalez, a UPS driver for nine years and a steward for Covina-based Teamsters Local 396.
Creating the so-called 22.4 drivers allowed the company to extend delivery services into the weekend without paying the full-time workforce extra for weekend duty or overtime.
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