Jaz Brisack is the author of Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World. They are a cofounder of the Inside Organizer School, which trains workers to unionize, and a founding member of Starbucks Workers United.
To capture the surging pro-union spirit across the United States, unions must be prepared to support worker-led organizing without attempting to control it, writes former Starbucks rank-and-file organizer Jaz Brisack.
Amazon labor organizer Chris Smalls and Starbucks organizer Jaz Brisack talk to Jacobin about racist union busting, being invited to the White House, and how genuine human interaction is the key to workplace organizing when the boss treats workers like robots.