"With the help of a research assistant, I reached out to every union drive that went public in 2022...BLM was the (non-union) movement influence that was most widely cited by those workers who initiated union drives in 2022." @ericblanc.bsky.socialwww.laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-r...
"Bosses were well aware of the contagion threat of any contestation at work, which is why companies like Whole Foods prevented employees from wearing BLM face masks. A leaked high-level internal company email explained that such actions might be “opening the door for union activity.”
"Felix Allen, a worker at Lowe’s in New Orleans, explains his decision to unionize as follows: “There’d been so many huge protests against police murdering Black people...
"and I felt like unionizing my store, even if it wasn’t directly related to police brutality, was a way to make a real difference in people’s lives at a place where we could exert some degree of control.”
