Anemic wage growth is only part of workers’ motivation for unionizing and striking. This has been coupled with an erosion of worker protections, write CmMcNich and joshbivens_DC
Celebrities like Fran Drescherlast week when they went on strike. The 160,000+ members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined 11,000 already striking film and television writers in the first industrywide shutdown in 63 years.
Anemic wage growth is only part of workers’ motivation for unionizing and striking. This has been coupled with an erosion of worker protections. Shrinking budgets at the Department of Labor and state agencies tasked with protecting workers’ rights have led to limited or non-existent enforcement and enabled corporations to violate workers’ rights—including basic health and safety protections—with impunity.
If the Teamsters are forced to strike at UPS, it will be a clear example of this trend. Revenue at UPS was over $100 billion in 2022, and its profits grew even faster than revenue in recent years. While wages are a central part of the negotiations, the union is also focused on aand wants to protect union logistic warehouse and package delivery jobs—that come with higher pay and good benefits—from being eroded by expanded use of temporary drivers.
Companies like UPS and the Hollywood studios have pointed to the fact that they pay relatively higher wages than other employers. That is what these companies don’t seem to understand—that is the point. These long-held union jobs have been hard won by workers. Contract after contract Teamsters workers have sought to protect and preserve what are now among the only decent jobs in the warehouse and delivery industry.
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