Episode 223: Unions Leverage Health And Safety Concerns In Successful Organizing Drive

The unions had a big week as a Midwest chain of coffee shops lost a close union vote this week, the latest in a series of successful organizing campaigns in the upper Midwest blue wall states. Is the health and safety crisis we are facing just what the doctor ordered for the labor community? We’ll take a look at the opening the pandemic has provided. And some new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has thrown a little cold water on the ongoing narrative around the impact of unemployment benefits on the labor shortage. We’ll take a look at what the numbers say - and don’t say - and how that impacts the conversation going forward. We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.