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Best Post-Pandemic Austin Trend

Unionizing Workforces

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photo by John Anderson

From Starbucks and the Statesman to Integral Care and the Alamo Drafthouse and the Texas Democratic Party, Austin's workers are leveraging the tight labor market to show that, as the song goes, "There Is Power in a Union." Kudos to organizers from the trade and industrial unions who've shared their time, talent, and treasure to help the millennial and Gen Z workers who've helped shift public opinion on organized labor (according to the polls) to its most positive levels since the Sixties.