The growth in union membership came from the technology and nonprofit sectors, as well as coffee shops.
Texas Tribune— a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.BARTONVILLE — About a year ago, Soleil Baker noticed their coworkers weren’t getting enough hours. Many of them struggled to pay rent and buy groceries.“I just wanted everyone to be able to afford to live,” they said.
They were among 68,000 Texans who joined a union in 2023, an increase from 2022. This uptick was fueled by workers in the technology and nonprofit sectors — as well as coffee shops. “We need a leader who’s not in the pocket of big business but answers to the working man,” Vance said“I feel like politicians will just say whatever they want because they're trying to appeal to a broad range of audiences,” Baker said.
The current Texas GOP platform supports the adoption of a National Right to Work Act, which would ban requiring worker to join union and pay union dues nationwide, and calls on the Texas Legislature to eliminate all special collective bargaining statutes for public employees and “hold all public servants accountable to taxpayers through existing civil statutes.“
Levy pointed to last year’s nationwide auto worker strike as a turning point in what working-class Texans thought of what unions could achieve. During the strike, thousands of workers at
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