Terri Gerstein (’95), Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, contributed an article to Slate heralding Ben & Jerry’s atypical cooperative response as workers organize to form Scoopers United (“Ben & Jerry’s Is the Anti-Starbucks,” June 7). “Ben & Jerrys, it seems, realized that a union is neither a dragon to slay nor an indictment of a company, but rather a way for its workforce to have a collective voice. . . . The new union at Ben & Jerry’s is a solid win for the several dozen workers scooping out treats in Vermont. But it also has implications for workers and companies nationwide: Ben & Jerry’s has shown through its actions that American companies have the ability to make a different and better choice when their workers want to unionize.”
