Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic

dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.

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Today's program will be talking about the union efforts at Starbucks, a remarkable admission

of the failed British university system on economic grounds.

And then finally, a discussion in the first half of the United

Auto Workers and the big negotiation going on there. In the second half of the show, we will

have Eleanor Goldfield, who's just completed a film on the Redwood forest and the struggle to save and protect

that forest from the entities for whom profit is the number one thing in the world and

who are cutting down those trees.

So let's jump right in.

September of every year is when we celebrate Labor Day.

We have it at the first Monday, but it's really the whole month that we should be thinking about

labor, its history, the struggles of working people to get a fair shake in a society that makes that difficult for most people.

And I want to talk today about a success story of the labor movement here in the United

States.

And it's a struggle about which little is known because for every time that a journalist tries to tell part of

that story, particularly a part showing the success workers have had, there's a barrage

of strangely, quickly appearing noise in the world of media that fudges what is one, what isn't one, what is happening,

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