Professor John Logan Quoted on UPS Strike and other Labor Topics by Major News Organizations

Department Chair and Professor of Labor and Employment Studies John Logan spoke to leading news outlets about the potential UPS strike and various prominent labor issues.

According to Logan, labor talks at UPS have a major influence on the whole labor movement in the United States. “There’s greater assertiveness and militancy on the part of many young labor activists and some sectors of the labor establishment. Sean O’Brien is representative of that,” Logan said.

Read the full news stories and listen to the interviews by visiting the links below:

• May 4, 2023, Yahoo, Amazon Labor Union's vice president faces criminal charges over allegations he choked his girlfriend.
• May 21, 2023, KCBS Radio, LA Topless Bar votes to be the sole unionized group of strippers in the US.
• May 22, 2023, The New York Times, Companies Are Taking a Harder Line on Union Organizers, Workers Say.
• June 1, 2023, Market Watch, ‘Workers are not indentured servants,’ Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says in dissent over union liability for strikes.
• June 5, 2023, AP News, UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time.
• June 6, 2023, Law360, Starbucks Campaign Offers Clues For Unions' Next Targets.
• June 16, 2023, CBS News, UPS workers vote to strike, setting stage for biggest walkout since 1959.
• June 17, 2023, The National Desk, UPS Teamsters vote to authorize strike; summer service disruptions loom.
• June 25, 2023, Boston Globe, As Boston's own Sean O'Brian matches UPS at the bargaining table, Amazon could be next.
• June 26, 2023, Northwest News Radio, Reports: Bill Gates to meet with Chinese President.