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Monday, July 23, 2007

Ten Years Since the UPS Strike: Globalization and Inequality

Ten Years Since the UPS Strike: Globalization and Inequality
Ten years ago, on August 4, 1997, when 185,000 UPS workers went out on strike, they made headline news. They forced a discussion of inequality onto the front pages of national newspapers and they tapped into the economic anxiety of the vast majority of Americans, so that the public sided with the Teamsters against UPS by a 2-to-1 margin.

 



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