Employees at the Columbus Dispatch newspaper and the Columbus Metropolitan Library have recently announced plans to unionize.
This follows growing unionization efforts both locally and nationally.
Places like Amazon and Starbucks have made national news over their unionizing efforts.
Locally, everyone from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream employees to nurses at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have started a push towards organized labor.
We're talking about the factors pushing Columbus employees toward unionizing on this hour of All Sides.
Guests:
- Alissa Widman Neese, reporter, Axios Columbus
- Luke Avnaim, driver/sorter, Columbus Metropolitan Library
- Jordan Laird, reporter, Columbus Dispatch
- John O'Keefe, associate professor of history, Ohio University Chillicothe Campus/director of communications, United Academics of Ohio University
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