With the tentative success of the UPS Teamsters, the seemingly growing unionization of Starbucks locations, and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, is it…appropriate to have some optimism for the working/salaried classes in the US?
With the tentative success of the UPS Teamsters, the seemingly growing unionization of Starbucks locations, and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, is it…appropriate to have some optimism for the working/salaried classes in the US?
In Canada recently we had the largest strike in Canada’s history from the public servants union and the deal they ended up getting was actually worse than the offer they started out with. However everyone voted to ratify it because of strike fatigue, and because the union did a shit job allocating strike pay. The union leaders have been gaslighting the members saying it’s a better deal, but literally the only gain was a lump sum payment of $2000 (in exchange for locking an extra year into the contract with raises that don’t keep up with inflation). The management decided to take advantage of how poor and desperate everyone is in the union to basically bribe them with a one time payment rather than make any concessions on pay or benefits.
So no, I’m not optimistic. A lot of people have been trampled on for so long that they are willing to accept a slightly lighter trampling instead of not being trampled on at all.