Professor John Logan Quoted in Politico E&E News and San Jose Mercury News on Federal Worker Classification Changes and the Kaiser Strike

Author: LFCoB
June 30, 2026

John Logan, Professor and Program Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University, recently shared his expertise in Politico E&E News, the San Jose Mercury News, and Reuters on significant labor issues shaping the national landscape.

In Politico E&E News, Logan commented on President Trump's executive order converting approximately 8,000 career federal staffers to Schedule Policy/Career, a new classification that makes their employment "at will." Logan warned that the move is designed to make it easier to fire senior civil servants and undermine the neutrality of the federal workforce, and that the administration is unlikely to stop at 8,000 positions.

In the San Jose Mercury News, Logan weighed in on the aftermath of the Kaiser Permanente strike, in which 31,000 nurses and health professionals walked off the job in January 2026. Logan noted that while Kaiser spent $1 billion on temporary workers to weather the strike, the deeper cost is the damage done to the decades-old labor management partnership that once served as a national model.

In Reuters, Logan offered analysis on the upcoming UAW presidential election, noting that despite setbacks in organizing efforts, UAW President Shawn Fain's historic contract wins are likely to carry him through to a second term.

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