On Friday, Starbucks workers in San Antonio will rally in Labor Plaza to demand management at long last bargain with unions in good faith. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX starbucks starbucksunion unions Labor workers
In the 1930s, waves of strikes disrupted the beleaguered U.S. economy, still in the throes of the Great Depression. Winning landslide after landslide, President Franklin Roosevelt set out to save capitalism from itself and forced bosses to swallow humble pie by granting long-overdue concessions to the labor movement.
Fast-forward to 2022 and Biden laughably calling himself the “most pro-union president in American history” while eviscerating the right to strike with a pen stroke and slapping corporations such as Starbucks on the wrist for their violations of settled labor law. Considering the resources they’re up against, the NLRB should really be a billion dollar government agency. And the mandate is there, since nearly three out of four Americans approve of unions — the highest level of support since 1965.
“Corporate executives and lobbyists often point out that the percentage of U.S. workers in unions has sunk to 10% from a peak of 35% in the 1950s, and they say this shows that American workers don’t want unions,” labor journalist Steven Greenhouse noted,. “They’re wrong. Several studies have found that around half of America’s nonunion workers — around 70 million people — say they would like to join a union if they could.
Still, half a loaf is better than no bread. But keep abiding by that maxim and we’ll always end up settling for crumbs. Now’s the time to demand something
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