I appeared on MSNBC's 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday, September 25 to discuss the tentative agreement in the Writers Guild of America strike against the Hollywood studios and, briefly, the UAW strike agains the Big Three automakers.
I offered my view that this tentative agreement was another in a long line of successes at the collective bargaining table for unions dating back to 2021. I qualified that assessment by making clear I was talking about unions that represent workers who are difficult for employers to replace, including the WGA members, academic workers at the University of California, the UAW's autoworker members, and the Teamsters at UPS. It would be harder to make the same argument about other workers given Starbucks' lawbreaking refusal to bargain in good faith and Amazon's delaying tactics. Nonetheless, this success at the bargaining table and others are the product of real worker power in American workplaces.
We also discussed the UAW strike briefly and the union's tactics. We particularly focused on the progress being made in negotiations with Ford and the seeming slower progress with General Motors and Stellantis.
Watch the full interview here:
