The ‘Summer of Strikes’ Isn’t Living Up to the Hype: Justin Fox

This is, you may have heard, the “summer of strikes.” The summer of threatened strikes, at least — more than half the 650,000 workers said to be on or headed for the picket lines in the US were United Parcel Service Inc. employees whose union, the Teamsters, now has a tentative deal with the company. Another looming strike just fizzled for a less happy reason: Perennially struggling trucking company Yellow Corp. ceased operations this week before its 22,000 Teamsters-represented workers could walk out.

Without those strikers, this year’s total seems unlikely to top 2018’s 485,200 or 2019’s 425,500 workers involved in stoppages of 1,000 ...