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on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Are you in a union?

Ten years ago, that question was mostly for auto workers, teachers, electricians, some others.

But something has shifted. It's not just where people are organizing. It's who.

When we think of union members, maybe you pitch your workers on a factory

line or longshoremen at a shipping port, but nowadays, union members wear Apple store t-shirts

and white doctors lab coats. Yes, even some doctors are unionizing. Baristas, video game designers, Hollywood writers, and even resident

doctors, yes, have decided to unionize. Noam Scheiber is a labor reporter at the New York Times,

and his new book, Mutiny, The Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class,

is about the generation of college graduates who were promised

a certain kind of life, or so they thought, didn't get it, and decided to do something about it

at work. Noam, it's been a minute. Welcome back to WNYC. Yeah, thanks for having me. Great to be here.

There are many places we could enter, but let me enter here. You described the first half of

2022 as the most significant moment in U.S. labor history in the last 40 years. Why the first half

of 2022? Yeah, well, we just had this explosion of union organizing among people who didn't typically try to organize a union and at companies that were not unionized.

So this kind of starts in the fall of 21, actually, with a few Starbucks stores in Buffalo, and two of these three stores win.

And then that union campaign just spreads like wildfire across the

country. First, a half a dozen in January of 22, then a dozen, and then by March, it's literally

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