7. Blanco Grows The Ground

Welcome to Heat the Ground Up, an oral history of Starbucks Workers United. In this episode, we get an inside look at how the baristas at Blanco, in San Antonio Texas, win a union with help from Starbucks Workers United. Over the course of the series, we’ll follow one of the most important labor fights in a generation through the voices and perspectives of the workers who organized it from the ground up. This podcast is a Haymarket Originals production. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find indispensable radical books, podcasts, virtual events, and other political education resources, including No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine by Jeff Schuhrke, which is 20% Off online. Please also consider joining the Haymarket book club. It’s one of the best ways to support Haymarket, and help fund projects like this one.Our podcast host is Clarissa Redwine. You can find more of her work at strike.kitchen. This entire oral history is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. The music was composed by Michael T. Simonelli over at the podcast production company Charts and Leisure.