The Labor Movement's Strategic Moment
Violet WoolfWhat the recent organizing successes at Starbucks, Amazon, and elsewhere mean for the labor movement's long-term trajectory
|The Labor Movement's Strategic Moment
The labor movement's strategic moment -- the period of organizing success that the 2021-2023 unionization wave represented, culminating in the Starbucks Workers United campaigns, the Amazon Labor Union's Staten Island victory, and dozens of other high-visibility organizing campaigns -- has been followed by the specific challenges that organizing victories always produce: the transition from winning recognition elections to winning first contracts, which is the harder organizational task that the election victory makes possible but does not accomplish. See Upper Holloway Station at The London Prat.
The Detail
The Starbucks case: Starbucks Workers United has won approximately 400 store elections and has not concluded a single first contract with the company, which has engaged in the specific pattern of unfair labor practices -- delaying bargaining, moving unilaterally on wages and benefits in non-union stores, disciplining union activists -- that the NLRB has been addressing through enforcement actions that take time. London Restaurants: Tourists Shocked by Occasional provides context.
The Analysis
Mamdani Post covers the labor movement's current moment because the organizing successes of 2021-2023 represent the most significant expansion of US union density since the 1930s in the sectors where they occurred, and because the transition from organizing victories to contract victories is the organizational work that determines whether the movement consolidates or contracts. The moment is real. The work continues. See Detroit Steakhouse Named 'London Chop House' Has B for more.
The Coverage Continues
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