Starbucks, Amazon and How Labor Unions Lift Workers and Strengthen Our Democracy, by NYT Journalist Steven Greenhouse

Monday, Apr. 18, 2022, 5 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room

Steven Greenhouse, award-winning author and long-time New York Times reporter on labor and the workplace, will speak on "Starbucks, Amazon and How Labor Unions Lift Workers and Strengthen Our Democracy."

Not in decades has there been so much excitement about labor unions, especially among young people, as we've seen not just at Starbucks and Amazon, but among grad students, museum workers, journalists, adjunct professors and iech employees. Many young people are embracing unions as a way to lift themselves up and build a fairer economy, in part by protecting the most vulnerable workers. Not only that, at a time our democracy seems deeply endangered, many Americans are looking to unions as an important force to help preserve our democracy against populist demagogues and billionaire donors with undue sway. 

Greenhouse's lecture is sponsored by the Kahn Institute, Journalism Concentration, Provost's Office and the departments of Sociology and Education.