Unionization Makes a Comeback! Really?
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Felix, Mihir and The Economist’s Charlotte Howard discuss the return of Howard Schultz to Starbucks. Can he win over a restive workforce and suppress recent unionization efforts at the company? We also debate the recent uptick in drug use at work. Is this the return of the Mad Men?
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| 0:45.7 | Welcome everyone. You're listening to After Hours. I'm Felix. I'm Me here and we are delighted |
| 0:50.5 | to have Charlotte Howard from the Economist here again. Welcome, Charlotte. Great to have you. |
| 0:54.8 | Thanks for having me again. So I'm curious. Have you guys run into inflation in your life? |
| 0:59.8 | Oh, that's scary. I was. Well, I'm just curious if it's starting to show up because I had confessed. |
| 1:05.4 | I went to blue bottle coffee and had my pour over and it was already at the boundary of kind of |
| 1:11.6 | crazy at 450 and it went to five. And did you buy it? I did. But I got to say I was thinking |
| 1:18.0 | pretty hard about switching over to home brew. When your coffee is more expensive than your sandwich, |
| 1:22.9 | you start to reconsider your choices. I agree. Something is not quite right. Something's not right. |
| 1:28.1 | Exactly. I see it in milk. A half gallon of milk is about a dollar more than it was last year |
| 1:33.2 | for me. Yeah. Yeah. And I've noticed in gas stations, I don't drive that often, but when I do |
| 1:38.7 | those prices are up pretty dramatically. I was looking yesterday at some of the numbers from |
| 1:43.4 | the Commerce Department and they were up about 26% in February compared with January. |
| 1:49.6 | The gas prices conversation is interesting to me because it's about between three and four |
| 1:55.0 | percent of pre-tax income. So it's significant, but it's not like rent. It's one of these prices |
| 2:02.6 | that is much more visible, much more salient than the numbers would lead you to really see. |
| 2:07.8 | Right. I think it's literally visible, right? I mean, you drive by and they have those huge numbers |
| 2:13.0 | on a huge sign. Yeah. The other thing about gas prices that's weird is in real terms, |
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