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hi, i'm for the ok. 20. 22 was a big year for workers organizing themselves into unions. we are going to look at the rise of the union movement, 2022 style and why it has happened. we start with patricia union. morgan, i says, on the rise united states because workers, i challenge in the narrative from corporate america, that is their fault. they hand by jobs, young people, workers in general. one is the ability, they one economic securely, they want to voice. i work there organizing because they're demanding respect inver clinician with their contribution to our economy. that's why the organizing allow you to jordan and layla and dave. so get to have you on board on this show. what a remarkable show to be in 2022. talking about the rise of the union movement. i'm going to ask you to introduce yourself and, and then we get

a conversation started. children tell us who you are and what you're doing. well, my name is jordan. wow is 24. i'm co found of amazon labor union in congress of such workers. and i've been a organizer for 3 years, and i amazon j f k. for to have lola, welcome to the state. tell us what he well, what you day. hi, i'm layla dalton, i'm 20 years old. i started about one year ago. was workers united trying to form a union, starbucks, and it's been a journey, but now i consider myself an activist for union. welcome and highlight i facing shows yourself audience around the world. what is their jamison? i'm a reporter at health post, formerly known as healthy and post, and i cover labor issues. if you don't to be part of this conversation, you can, we are on youtube where i live right now. jumping to the comment section, if you've got a question for dave or layla or jordan, please go ahead. drop back on that question in

a be part of today's show. jordan layla, i know that you said your eighty's i. i was not expecting that, but i'm sure the audience will be leading in jordan your 24 later. your 20 you are the new face of, of the union movement in the united states. layla. how did you learn about what a union is? what a union can do for you. how long did that take? well, i would say that throughout my journey at starbucks it's, there's been a lot of rough and downs. and i would say that i was pushed to my limit when i had just gotten out of the hospital and i was trying to ask for some accommodations. and that's when i talked to my co leader who was also my co worker at the time. bill went meyer and he told me what a union was when i saw i had to quit, i thought i did everything possible and in a sentence,

now you've experienced that now that you're an organizer, a union is how would you describe it from your personal perspective i would say that a union is a group of workers who come together and they want to come to the table and bargain and want to be heard. jordan, we've had so much about the problems within amazon, mostly because workers are said we're gonna speak out. we're gonna tell you, you order a parcel. this is what happens behind the scenes. so at what point did you realize that you had to do something you weren't just going to suffer as a worker. so a little i worked educate september 20th 2018. the opening day, i have a medical issue called lucas on fridays, i had 13 years amazon or for me medical benefits. and it was great efforts. were they terminated me 3 times and my recent termination, september 23rd in 2022. or they said i voluntarily resign, which i didn't,

i was wanting to know for accommodations for my, my medical issue. so i see in there that they will trinity hear me from where we walked out when christmas got terminated. and i had to take the students that you know, lucas need to be spoken of. jordan and jessica west really don't want to say dana beckers, people around the world may, may not have known about your struggles. i'm just gonna get them up to speed on that. so j f k festival is a warehouse on staten island. it's an amazon warehouse. you. yeah. so, so you had health issues that weren't being address, you were terminated and then you thought what? they were treating me much fairly in that anywhere in the my shoe, to beach. we lay there at the same time, people with our medical issues has been treat the same way. so my community were all affected in some sort of way without accommodations or any to believe help. so there's, there's fear there was, were, or are motivated me to organize my community a g, g. i think that how fund and covetousness what was a catalyst for why we seemed so much organizing in the past we're at that is my

theory. but i'm also going to bring up vanessa barnes. she's a professor, an author at cornell university. they have a listen to vanessa, and then respond immediately of the back of how she's framing. what is happening right now with workers and unions? his i think seeing how organizations were able to respond to the coven. 19 pandemic has really emboldened unions and workers. we saw things we didn't think were possible. we saw organizations completely pivot, change the nature of work, and still maintain productivity and profit. and so unions are pointing to this and saying when employers are sufficiently motivated, they can make big changes. so here are a bunch more big changes that we think are important and overdue. i think that makes a lot of sense. i've talked to a lot of workers throughout the pandemic. and one thing that so many of them say is that coven 19,

and the experience of working through it kind of ripped open and laid bare all of these things, these problems that they had with their jobs and were reluctant to speak out about them previously. and so i think, you know, what we've seen with people literally facing death on the job in a lot of industries. is that, you know, coven made them so fed up with certain things that work, that they were willing to take steps that they weren't willing to previously. and so there's been, you know, a lot of different factors and some of these really notable union campaigns that, like we seen historic ones like at starbucks. and like at amazon, by think, you know, coven 19 has certainly been a thread running through all this work where people essentially said, i feel like my employer doesn't really care about me. and i'm going to rally with my co workers and, and find a way to make, make the boss here what we have to say. i think the start as this was a lot of health issues and letting you mentioned how this was july 20 mentioned health issues. and you can employ is like her that makes you mad, right? ala?

oh yes, that it hurts because unfortunately my health issue was not is it is not as bad as people like jordan, my friend tyler. and it's unfortunate that if i am going through those, i can't imagine what other people can be going through was worse health issues. so i'm thankful at letting you at starbucks. jordan, you were at amazon, these up big companies with resources don't. what do you think the amazon wasn't able to be more flexible? i was package is that if we profit, it was a time to exclude a lot of people with jobs and businesses that amazon was only company open for people to come in and i haven't jobs. so it's an interview for amazon. you apply. what great did you get the job?

so it was on a myself to come in and abuse us during called it was sent a lot of public support for unions, which is really interesting about where we are in 2022. dave, when you're reporting about labor unions and, and labor disputes, what are you getting the sense from what sent you getting from the public in the united states about how supportive they are. of these big companies, some of them big companies and workers organizing their it is really a david and goliath situation. i, the little person taking on the big company and many little companies around the country has the public, the entity. so we know from annual polling that the gallup polling entity does every year, they measure the public satisfaction or dissatisfaction with labor unions. and right now it's, it's at a decades long, high a, you know, it, the, the approval of unions has been steadily climbing. ah, for years now and you know,

i think cove id probably help reinforce that a little bit. but it's important to keep in mind that, that even when the public supports unions and when workers want to, to be in unions, it's actually very difficult, can be extremely difficult to unionize in the united states. you know, people just think it's as simple as well. you just kind of go have a vote neither you want it or you don't, but they don't realize that the employer has a long period where they can really aggressively counter campaign the union. they have essentially, you know, round the clock access to the workers in a way that, that the unions do not. so employers are constantly making their case against unionization. there are legal boundaries around this, and employers are, are often going over them, other illegally coercing workers. and so it's a lot of workers are often stunned by how aggressive the counter campaign is that that's on least by,

by their employer. when i'm going to say i sent some video film at starbucks. lucky strike on november. the 17th is, is if it's so much lucas organized, but then stomach sees not having a negotiation with them. and so you can have a union that you back 1st contract, but yeah, i can take some time to get together. let me show you that this strike situation on november the 17th perez. oh we're on strike because we are fighting for better scheduling. fair wages. man um failure to bargain from starbuck, they have not decided to bargain with the union, which is an illegal activity. they've been snarling, they've been doing their best to avoid late at how hard is that journey from the getting your colleagues together, which is generally in secret, forming your union and then saying ok, this is what we want. how,

how does that tell us? well, it's extremely hard, it was harder than i expect. i definitely think my co leader and i were trying to get this going and trying the file for a union within a week. and unfortunately, within a couple of days, we told the wrong person who was actually against unions. and she goes and tells management, and that's what happens. someone tells management they get when the union and then they try and find the way to either, right? you are trying get you to quit by making your life very difficult. maybe it's called the clopin, so you have to close and then open the next day, and it's trying to make you quit and make your life just horrible. what was the worst point of you when you were organizing the union? what was the point where you just felt this even with it?

i definitely i never had a time where i said that was the even worth it because i knew how much i gave the starbucks, how much i cared for my workers for management, for the customers. so i knew that if i put in all this work and i love something so much, then they're gonna keep doing this to my best friends, to people all around the world. so as much as it's got, it got really hard. there's times i wanted to give up, but i knew i couldn't give up and i knew it would always be worth it on you chin. i'm just going to bring in some thoughts here to what i will be nice to get your reaction to them. a key challenge for new unions is maintaining momentum after certification vote, edification vote, and continuing to build power on the shop floor in ways that challenge management's control of the workplace. uh, did you see that? did you find that in, in your situation with amazon?

i definitely with a union busting a major major issue, are they were having classes like almost every 20 minutes of a class or 50 workers for management and we received you seeing the and was always going to continuously do the area there wasn't going to start there were while we were falling, you opie's? oh paul. oh sorry. i'm feel able to practice again breaking the blow by a sudden hurry as employees and i a chill and work is davina be coming together that a form in the work lead union is grassroots. b, me, chris, eric and gerald, you started there and we been in for 4 years. so we know that community in there, so definitely with the union bus in the the way they bump it up and it was a major, major challenge. also, just analogous watching like, wow said, i think many things, lots of an increase of support of union labor as like economics, inflation covered 19 shortage of waters work as, as

a whole list of them. do you recognize that dave, when you're daniel reporting a you sing base not one thing. that's a catalyst that many things and making luck is gonna actually lead me to organize. yeah, i think it's also important to take a long historical view here to unions used to be pretty robust in the u. s. after world war 2 union membership. it was around a 3rd of the u. s. workforce was was, were union members. that's down to one in 10 now. and that number's including the public sector when you take them out. public sector as, as strong union density. remove them in the private sector. it's down to 6 percent rights. are you talking one out of every 16 workers? that's it. in the private sector are members of unions. i think a lot of americans are, are coming around to the idea that maybe they do serve some, some important function here. when union density is dropped so low and they see that that there really is no kind of counter veiling force to manage men into

corporation. so i think that's one reason why a lot of people have general public and workers in particular sees, see a need for unionism right now. i want to add, and it's really important because we're talking about as late as experienced with starbucks and jordan's experience with amazon and, and many of the small and large companies around the us who are having issues with not being able to organize and work is not being asked to organize, we did ask amazon or we are starbucks to be part of this program to participate or even just to give us a statement. and they didn't respond to us at all. and wilma liebman, her, her layla, smiling woman, lehman brings up a really important point later. we have a listen to this because it's not easy. the road that you are on, feels wilma and please respond to the point that she brings out the

employers typically are not that anxious to have to reach said for 1st agreement. and so they were very often dragging out the process perhaps going through the motions of good faith bargaining, but nonetheless, dragging out the process for as long as possible. and relatedly one or both parties are likely to be leo fight to collect a bargaining. and that in and of itself, provides an obstacle to reaching a 1st agreement. now to thinking that, where did you go to learn about collective bargaining? well, honestly, i learned a lot of it from my union rep when i honestly didn't know what a union was and as much as my co leader told me, this is what a union is. this is how you get started. a lot, a lot. you have to learn it on the way by and children. it's definitely learning experience. i mean my mom is 1199. so, i mean,

i got good benefits when i was younger, but i need be now with amazon, that big cooperation. i mean, you know, they're going to so out we know the games are going to play. so, i mean, there for me, it was, it was, it was, i could be learning and been, you know, again my mom's 1199. so. yeah, i'm just also thinking about the fear factor. like the risk of you losing your job . what's the worst that can happen? the stress of leading layla 20 your leader. yeah, i mean, i started when i was 19. it's january 20th or 21st of 20. 22 is when i decided i want to start a union. and unfortunately in less than a couple of days, i did get a ride up. i did get taken into the bag with corrective action that had about 2

pages, almost about maybe a page and a half. so once i realize that they did catch when it's a very scary thing, because starbucks, they give you other benefits. i was going to college through starbucks, and they did pay for most of it. so it's very unfortunate that it's gotten to the point that workers are getting scared to unionize because starbucks is firing people left and right. there's been almost $200.00 workers fired. so it's a scary thing, but we do know it will be worth it once we win to lay. i'm just wondering what do you think goes on with companies? have their big companies. oh, any company, are they in 2022. i felt like the labor movement back in the fifties and sixties and seventies. we learn so much about how do you treat workers, what do they deserve, what is the respect and dignity that they deserve? why do we not appear to have it now? what happened? do you think layla i think that people got lost

in making money and didn't really realize that what they're doing, the bigger your company gets, the harder is going to be to make sure everyone is treating everyone right and making sure the rules are being followed. so i think that big corporations, like starbucks and amazon, there are so giant that it's very hard to make sure. management is doing everything right. and i think that they don't want to go the extra step because they're very greedy and they pick profit over people. so guess, yeah, i once had a, a management side attorney that someone who represents our companies say to me that that when a company is dealing with the possibility of a union that their values 10 tend to go out the window, which i thought was very funny there is something about the prospect of a union,

the possibility of a company having to bargain, sit down at a table with, with their workers directly on par, or that i think frightens a lot of companies. and so it's very different when you're talking about a, a company that is traditionally non union like amazon, they very, very aggressively did not want a union to get a tow hold in there. and it's important to note that before jordan's union won an election on, on staten island, there was a different election down in alabama. and amazon was found to have broken the law and that they illegally tainted the vote in a 2nd to over election was ordered by, by officials. and so then there's tons of allegations against starbucks right now over a legal firings and store closures as chris starbucks maintains that none of it was retaliatory, but that's all going to be litigated. i think people because of the high profile nature of some of these campaigns that are happening, i think the public is finally seeing what really goes on when, when, when workers try to start to unionize some phyllis here anew. chief randy doesn't

seem to be quite a fan of unions. he says the issues with unions is that they do not do what they promise. i take your money in teams and give you nothing in return. that feels like a very old school approach to union stowed in 24 year old. didn't tell me when i ran me is wrong. again, i've been terminated 3 times due to my health issue. i've gotten the accommodations, no type of a, b become patient, no type of work. i'm sorry papa leave a proper pay. it definitely because a medical issue in amazon is very, very high, especially be to fire in a g. o. d will treat him, is failure. you know, these workers are these workers, i was to have family, they have kids. yeah. parents. you have to go to the, you know, these workers, the week of every day and scarce, that the man i have a job the next day or i want wrong. there was a big difference between organizing in the fifties and organizing in the 2022 is

what tools that you have available. how do you connect with people? and christmas is one of your co union organizers, jordan and in april it was such an interesting experience because he managed and you manage. and the group of you managed to, to put a union in amazon that warehouse that j f k warehouse. this is how chris described that experience and how he did it. a lot of people doubted us, and they know who they are. it is support us will allow them 11 months. everybody knows that. you know, we, we raise might go funding. we raise pennies. we had like 3000 our colleges 3 weeks ago. so this tells you how grass roots is. care plan is. we had nothing. we started off with 2 tables, 2 chairs, and a tank. and se, puede a,

that secret ingredient, $3.00. and you were organized. how is that possible? oh christine is dismiss this. ah, again it's again, it is the voice that we had put out. it was the congress of essential workers. we had, i traveled the world from the east coast to washington dc. he actually, jesus has a house in the embassy, i should mention that and his b and our house in the west coast in california. we went and rarely did you know, people see that we were, we were, exp, leeks was an amazon, and explain the damage that they were doing to their employees. and again, my chris said 2 tables, 2 chairs, a 10 tall days long. my sleep was days, sometimes 24 hours on the property that you know, just given church. so given food out, actively engaged with workers and then started feeding the workers inside. then again that that's what really motivated me, chris, dirt. and gerald at the beginning in our team came to what support it. and again

with our kids in gp had got us the victory actively engaged in feeding the workers until john and lola, i'm told for sharing your experience of the union movement. 2022 style can if he's a new chief says the same is happening in the u. k. nurses are going on strike ambulance drivers as well, but been underpowered for years. this is an ongoing conversation. every really interesting to see what happens next in the u. s, but thanks so much for watching the show today and looking at the new union movement in the united states. i think next time growing up in greece means taking action. welcome to generation change a global theory. the understand challenge the idea of mobilizing youth around the world when he did a political party the we'll talk about our problems enough,

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