With Amazon and Starbucks union efforts, workers are having a moment this Labor Day. It's not the first time
union organizer Chris Smalls remind McCartin of Walter Reuther, who helped organize the Flint, Mich., auto strike in 1936 at the age of 29. “When the industrial unions formed, it was younger workers that really led the way,” according to McCartin.
But Will Jones, an expert on U.S. labor history at the University of Minnesota, warns that history also provides examples of why it might make sense to temper expectations for today’s activists., when there was a wave of unionizing among groups not historically associated with the labor movement, from sanitation workers to healthcare workers.
Today, Jones argues, it’s going to be a long road to a contract for many of the new retail unions and employers. “The laws and the legal protections for forming a union remain very weak, and it’s almost impossible to compel an employer to actually sit down and negotiate with the union. The penalties are pretty minuscule and meaningless.”and Starbucks is poised to bring new awareness to the labor movement.
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