I felt a swell of pride last month when employees at a Memphis Starbucks voted to unionize despite the fact that seven of their colleagues—the union organizers—had been fired three months earlier.
Thanks (but no thanks) to our right-wing Supreme Court, corporations wield tremendous power over individual workers, especially in GOP-governed states like Tennessee. Yet as with voting, there’s power in numbers, and young people—like all the workers at that Memphis Starbucks—are refusing to give up that power the way their parents have.
The ground is shifting. People-powered change is happening in Tennessee.
In Right to Work states like Tennessee, we make lower wages, have less access to health insurance and paid family leave, and have fewer opportunities for training and advancement. But there’s a new generation of Tennesseans who know their worth and won’t be intimidated by state-sanctioned union busting. Let’s be ready to stand with them.
Allison
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