UPS management plainly knew what was at stake in a strike threat, and worked to reach a deal. What's holding back the Hollywood bosses?
. Teamster members would lose $1.1 billion in wages, Anderson calculated, based on average annual pay of $90,000.The broader economic impact from a strike would be massive — $7.1 billion in losses to industry and consumers. That might have prompted intensifying political pressure on both sides to reach a pact as the contract deadline approached, resulting in a deal that satisfied no one.By any reasonable accounting, Hollywood’s top executives are grossly overpaid.
For the Teamsters, what hung in the balance was O’Brien’s reputation as a determined negotiator who had based his own election as general president on his resolve to obtain an industry-leading contract from UPS. O’Brien understands that union solidarity is the key to successful contract negotiations and successful strikes, but solidarity almost invariably wanes as strikes drag, especially if no visible progress is being made.
“You could make a million house calls, run a thousand television commercials, stage a hundred strawberry rallies, and still not come close to doing what the UPS strike did for organizing,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told the umbrella union’s national convention a month later. The studio bosses have behaved so far as though they have the upper hand over actors and writers who are basically working stiffs — never mind the handful in both categories who can command multimillion-dollar paydays. They’re betting that the pressure of paying mortgages and other expenses will bring their adversaries back to work.
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