Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Professor and Chair of Labor and Employment Studies John Logan published an op-ed in The Hill, assessing how recent Starbucks union victories may ignite nationwide organizing.
"The Starbucks union campaign could 'light a fuse' among non-union workers and take off [nationally] like the General Motors (GM) Flint sit-down strike did in 1936," Logan reflects. "If baristas begin to think of unions as the institutional manifestation of their notion of just treatment at work, Starbucks management may not be able to stop them for organizing in significant numbers."
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