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“Big Three” Auto Workers Vote To Strike By 97% (peoplesdispatch.org)

submitted 1 year ago by shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This could have been the Teamsters too but alas, cowards sold out.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait really? Is there a place I can read about this drama?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Think hes referring to the UPS contract, which the teamsters negotiated very well for their members.

It was so good UPS was complaining about how much long term employees would make and how much the new contract cut into shareholder profits.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I think you are right. The poster is suggesting the Teamsters also should have gone on strike. Which... wow, okay. I was confused, thinking the Teamsters also had a union in thrbauto industry and were playing scabs to the UAW, which would be shocking drama.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

Don't act like that was the best deal they could have gotten. They cowardly backed down instead of striking while the iron was hot.

Can you fucking imagine the impact of the UPS strike being followed immediately by this strike too? Holy shit.

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The states don't have the class consciousness necessary for something like that.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Strikes build class consciousness.

Catch-22

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Weren't they forced out of their strike by the government?