Jerry 🦙💝🦙UPS, the shipping company, not the thing that keeps your computer running after the power goes out, is based near where I live. There is a labor dispute between the UPS drivers and UPS the company. The local news coverage is… interesting. The news visited a bunch of local stores trying to (seemingly) get them to say that a strike would hurt their business. And most did, but every one of them also said “and we think what the drivers are asking for is reasonable and we’ll find a way to get through it”
dango🍡
@jerry honestly gross how even "local" media panders to the megacorps
@dango_ mega corps pay their salaries and, in many cases, own them outright
@jerry sometimes, but also even for "independent" locals, if they're too buddy buddy with local govt, they get influenced by them. And local govt *loves* the tax bill megacorps bring
@jerry but yeah, I remember discovering my "local" newspaper was owned by a national company, there aren't very many actually local companies left
Ian Douglas Scott