News Brief: As UPS Strike "Looms," Media Frames Working-Class Revolt as "Threat" to "The Economy"

Published: July 5, 2023, 2:17 p.m.

In this public News Brief, we break down media coverage of the potential UPS strike\u2013\u2013and the trend more broadly in labor coverage\u2013\u2013that paints a strike as something that harms "the consumer" or "the economy" rather than what it is: the only thing that gives workers any power.

Our guest is writer and media analyst Teddy Ostrow, host of The Upsurge podcast.