This is Jackamon Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman. We've been featuring workers struggles in recent weeks looking at the big quit.

The labor shortage and the upsurge in strikes. Signs that point to what Nelson

Lichtenstein calls the churn, the big churn in labor, including unionization,

drives, strikes, victories, and setbacks, but with militancy increasing over all.

Today we're going to look at the Starbucks victory and the continuing Kellogg

strike. After workers rejected the agreement and Kellogg has said it will

permanently replace the workforce. We talk to labor scholar John Logan who has

tracked unionization efforts closely and he talked to us earlier this year on

the January through the March Amazon organizing effort at Bessimer, another

closely watched historic campaign. Significantly the NLRB has ruled against

Amazon's tactics that made the vote to unionize Amazon impossible. Anything but

free and fair. They've ordered a do-over, but today we're going to talk to

John Logan about the victories and the upsets, the campaigns and strikes, and

the renewed militancy with public support, beginning with the victory at

Starbucks. Lauren Carey-Gurley, who has been covering the Starbucks unionization

drive, quoted Richard Benzinger, the lead organizer in the Starbucks campaign,

and I think his quotes a great way to begin. He said, this is a stunning victory

that proclaims that Gen Z is generation union. All this, when our program

returns, in just a moment.

This is Jackamon Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman. John Logan joins us, as I said. He's a PhD

in U.S. labor history at UC Davis. He's an expert on the anti-union

industry and the anti-union legislation in the U.S. and explores how public

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