Noah
Jerry ๐ฆ๐๐ฆUPS, 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 isโฆ 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 โand we think what the drivers are asking for is reasonable and weโll find a way to get through itโ
TommyBoy@jerry one came in to our office today and told us about what's going on. Top to bottom everyone feels for em. It's nice that at least they have that going for them. Public support
Viss@jerry ups fucked me incredibly hard this year. i very much dont like them.
Major Dumpster Fire 
@jerry Those anti-union sentiments are easy soundbites to get from large corps, but small local businesses tend to understand taking care of their people a lot better than a massive entity like UPS clearly does.
The Teamsters tried to make something work, UPS dug their heels in, this strike is on them.
Edit: To be clear, I support what the Teamsters are doing. No one can say they didn't try to hash out a deal with UPS that took care of the drivers, and if UPS can't agree to something as reasonable as a cost of living adjustment, I say strike away.
dango๐ก
@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
Space Catitude ๐@jerry
Glad to hear it.
As a business who uses shipping services, you do NOT want the drivers to be overworked, underpaid, and less than alert.
That's how you get lost packages, to say nothing of drivers getting injured.
Dario Landazuri@jerry Good for the last bit.
Dan Berky "ืื" โ MS ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฎ๐ฑ@jerry Just one of a myriad examples debunking the lie that the media has a liberal bias.
Hugh Ferguson@jerry well, thre is no money in reporting news, but tons of money in using your ownership of the narrative to help crush unions
Peter Principle@jerry "So there you have it, Karen -- local store owners here are TERRIFIED of a strike! Back to you..."
LisPi@jerry Hopefully they said it in a way that was hard to cut from footage.
olaolarolla@jerry just smoke and mirrors, God bless America brah...
Tom Jacob@jerry who owns your local news stations?
CarRamrod@jerry In Pittsburgh the local news media has to make it sound like a bad thing that the newer mayor has close ties to a local labor union. They have NEVER tried to suggest the cozy relationships between prior mayors and giant corporations as a bad thing. It's like there is a name for these sorts of shenanigans, like a sort of warfare between classes.... maybe a class war