IMO, a blessing in disguise. Normally, I vote gop on econ issues - though I'd vote for anyone who had a serious focus on deficts. But there's no republican running.
The dems BIGGEST problem is simply that working Americans have had a tough time, and it doesn't look like it's getting better because the Fed has achieved growing unemployment. (HUZZAH)
The government (Democrats) can't fix all of working America's problems. They have to do something too. Some are.
US unions winning big gains amid ‘Great Reset’ in worker power
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Increased militancy after pandemic sacrifices and tighter labor market contributed to impressive contract deals in the last year
Across the US, labor unions are winning surprisingly large contract settlements as workers have reset their expectations to demand considerably more than they did just a few years ago, and that has in turn pressured many corporations to reset – and increase – the pay packages they are giving in union contracts.
The result has been a wave of impressive – sometimes eye-popping – union contracts over the past year, far more generous than in recent decades. In August, 15,000 American Airlines pilots won pay increases of
46% over four years. In a huge labor confrontation last summer, 340,000 Teamster members at
UPS won raises of $7.50 an hour over five years, with drivers’ pay climbing to $49 an hour and part-time workers receiving a pay increase of 48% on average.
After a three-day strike earlier this month,
85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers won raises of 21%, as well as a $25 minimum wage for Kaiser’s workers in California. In March, 30,000
Los Angeles school district workers – bus drivers, cafeteria workers and teachers’ aides – won a 30% wage hike over four years. In Oregon,
1,400 nurses at Providence Portland hospital secured raises between 17% and 27% over two years.
Union leaders and rank-and-file workers hailed these contracts as great and historic, but Thomas Kochan, a longtime professor of industrial relations at MIT, put it another way: “All this reflects a a reset in expectations and wage norms for workers and for employers.