Daily News | ‘Hot Labor Summer’ hits Philadelphia as strikes and pickets pop up across the region
“It sends a strong message to corporate America,” said Bill Hamilton, eastern region vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents 340,000 UPS workers across the country.. … The people that actually did the work in these warehouses and these other [workers] deserve to share in the profits,” Hamilton said.
“The list of people that are recognizing this is growing larger, and larger, and larger … they’re just getting stronger, and they’re not going away any time soon,” she said.when he briefly visited Philadelphia on Thursday“I got tired of trickle-down economics. I’ve never been a big fan,” Biden said. “I like the wealthy to be able to be wealthy. But … the mere fact they do well doesn’t mean that everybody else does well.
“If they’re coming back to the table Monday, we’re hopeful that means they’ve come back to a sense of reality,” Hamilton said.on Thursday, a week into their strike after failing to reach a contract agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The union has been forming picket lines across the country, where members have emphasized that the majority of working actors make a middle-class living or less.
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