My letter carrier just dropped off our mail. To my queries, he said he would like to do a support action for the strike and that it felt like we were in the 1890s with robber barons the way wealth was sliding upward. But he also said he was afraid that if the Postal workers acted they would suffer repression. That is fear holding back insight. Give him a vote on hiring and firing, wages, and conditions, and see the changes that follow.
Corporations are dictatorships.
And suddenly management expressed interest in voting. This only evidenced how venal they are. To argue for votes on every contract offer is not a workable approach for capital against a workforce big and visible enough to get its answer heard. In short, UPS had no path to follow that didn't threaten to enlarge their losses. The odds were good that UPS would, by fighting on, merely enlarge the solidarity and power of not only their own workforce and the Teamsters, but of labor more broadly as well.