After months of contract negotiations and preparing for a strike, UPS workers organized in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have been handed a five-year contract — which they’re voting on between now and August 23. While many in the union officialdom and on the broad left are hailing the proposed contract as a victory, we join UPS rank-and-filers in calling for a “no” vote.
Proponents of the labor-aristocracy thesis argue that there is a layer of highly paid workers in the US who are bribed by the super-profits of imperialism. This logical fallacy conflates better-off workers with the very real problem of the labor bureaucracy, distorts the exploitation of the entire working class, and leads to fundamental errors in organization.
Most people see the United States as a middle-class society. This idea has dominated sociology and even influenced left-wing organizing. Is this view accurate? How does it square with Marx’s idea that the working class is the vast majority in capitalist society? Ahmed Kanna examines an important contribution to this debate on analysis and strategy.
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