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A former labor reporter for the New York Times, he is\\xa0surprisingly optimistic:\\xa0\\u201cWhen the first Starbucks voted to unionize in Buffalo\\xa0back in December, that was\\xa0a humongous deal.\\u201d Humongous! (A word that does not appear in his most recent book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.)