majority so now might north carolina lawmakers have a chance to rethink their stance on all of this. the question is, will they take it? that is the show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. they didn t take their last opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on i loved your conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you re worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consent decrees at a time, which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. i believe the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doe
opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on y to another conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consecutive degrees at a, time which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. and blew the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doesn t mean it s not worth talking about. one of the things that make minneapolis interesting though is that the fundamental problem on that police force was the union chief, and that is the case in many american police forces. the police chief, the george floyd,
during covid, right? most americans did really think about supply chain all that much. now we all know everything about supply chain. does the potential affect the economy, including the potential of a recession, does that come into your thinking at all? do you need to stay laser focused on the demands that you ve got, and getting what you cannot u.p.s.? yes. we re focused on getting the best contract. obviously, i don t think anyone wants a recession. especially in light of supply chain and all the valuable teamsters. this will improve that. at the end of the day, we can t compromise any of our beliefs at this point. if we do go into a recession, i think we ve all seen recessions but we can t compromise our position right now. i think we ve got some tremendous leverage. i m going to utilize that to get the best contract. do you share the view that a prolong teamster strike that u.p.s. could trigger a recession? i m certain it could. i m certain it could.
they do not get what they are negotiating. for u.p.s. in the teamsters have both suggested the air moving towards the agreement. it is hard to overstate how serious a teamster strike at u.s. u.p.s. would be for an economy that is what you just described. tell me what you are thinking about this. first of all, i m not going to get into any specific cases like that because we have seen time and again that the best thing we can do is encourage both sides to come to an agreement. you saw that happen many cases, labor secretary walsh helped in various conflicts like that. i just mentioned acting secretary julie su doing really fantastic work out there in the west coast. exactly what you re talking about, keeping our supply chains going. in this case it is still early days. we know both sides are gonna be talking to each other. that s a company that has a good history of working with its unions. so i think we could stay
chains. that was a really important priority of president biden, starting when he got into office. and that has helped to push down on goods inflation. we just saw some great work by acting secretary julie su out in the ports. that s really good in terms of keeping the side plains on snarled. that s going to start. the main thing is where you landed, which is we like to see wages outpacing inflation. but it has actually been the case on a monthly basis for the last six or seven months, and that has helped to fuel consumer spending and in his help to keep this economy moving in such a resilient fashion. what we saw in the last information report was the year over year gain, a slight gain, two tenths of a percent of wages over inflation so if you put all those dynamics together, prices spiked came down, this inflation, that means inflation growing more slowly month after month, we ve had that for 11 months and in a row. we want to keep that going. and nominal wages beating inflation, tha