Author

John Logan

John Logan

John Logan is a professor and director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University. He has published widely on labor relations in the United States and on global labor issues.

COMMENTARY

America is in the middle of a labor mobilization moment – with self-organizers at Starbucks, Amazon, Trader Joe’s and Chipotle behind the union drive

By: - September 5, 2022

Labor Day 2022 comes smack bang in the middle of what is increasingly looking like a pivotal year in the history of American unions. The summer has seen a steady stream of workforce mobilizations. Employees at Trader Joe’s locations in Massachusetts and Minneapolis both voted to unionize. Meanwhile, restaurant chain Chipotle saw the first of […]

COMMENTARY

The labor-busting law firms and consultants that keep Google, Amazon and other workplaces union-free

By: - September 7, 2020

American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the reasons unionization in the private sector is at a record low. What you may not realize is that a handful of little-known law and consulting firms do much of the dirty work that keeps companies […]