Tag: amazon
As expected, Amazon was able to defeat the union attempt at its Bessemer, Alabama plant. A few thoughts on this. First, a lot of people are linking to the Jane McAlevey piece that lambasted the Retail
Amazon’s attempt to sell their anti-union position on Twitter led to any number of obvious ridiculousness and self-owning. There was the attempts to tell members of Congress that workers didn

I was happy to talk to a reporter for America Magazine, which is the journal of the Jesuits, about the Amazon struggle: The campaign by Amazon workers to unionize in Alabama, with a vote that conclude
This is a bit older now, but worth highlighting. The always important labor reporter Stephen Greenhouse has a real good interview with one of the Amazon leaders: Can you talk more about Amazon’s ant

New York is suing Amazon for its utter indifference about its workers contracting COVID-19. New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, sued Amazon on Tuesday evening, arguing that the company provi
Will the workers of Amazon win their union election? It’s going to be very, very tough. I do not at all doubt that the core of workers want that union. But Amazon’s intense anti-union pres

The Alabama Amazon center demanding a union has advanced to the NLRB preparing to schedule an election. Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse are getting closer to holding a vote on whether to form t
It is so, so hard to win a union election in this era of employer capture of the National Labor Relations Board and courts. But you have to root for and support all the brave attempts to do so. That
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