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

dimensions of our lives and those of our children. And I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. I want to begin today's

show with the topic that will be much of today's show, namely labor, the labor movement in the

United States, the explosion, the surging of a labor militancy that we have not seen for decades in the United States, and that promises

to be a historic change unfolding in front of us. I'm going to begin by looking at a number

of the signs of this to drive home what's going on here in the United States, and then I'm going to

look briefly at the United Kingdom. I could have picked other countries, of course,

but I'm focused at least initially on them. First here in the United States, we had huge

victories of labor organizing that we have not seen before in companies that had boasted of how

totally they had prevented that from ever happening or darkening their workplaces.

You know the names, Starbucks, Amazon, many university boards, hospitals, I could go on.

A real comeuppance for their lame promises to have controlled history.

History isn't being controlled by any of them.

You know what's happening?

Capitalism, which has provoked workers to struggle for unions for as long as it's been part of our history.

And it's just come right back to show you it never went away.

Huge wins were won by workers striking.

The University of California, Minnesota nurses, the railroad workers,

who would have won, were it not, for the intervention of President Biden, who had promised

he would be a friend of workers, but turned out to be one of those friends you don't need.

There's a UPS strike scheduled for 2023.

There are lots more coming.

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