By Matthew Cunningham-Cook
&
David Sirota
Read the full article from Lever News, here.
The president promised to halt federal contracts to union busters — but the deal was just re-awarded to Amazon while the company was crushing a union drive.
Tag: labor and unions
By Matthew Cunningham-Cook
and Julia Rock
Read the full article from The Lever, here.
The retailer’s anti-labor activities could be violating the terms of multi-million subsidy deals it has scored in New York.
Read the full article from Labor Notes, here.
By Jason Del Rey
Read the full article from Vox, here.
Amazon wanted to make former employee Chris Smalls the face of labor activism. He just handed Amazon its first US union.
By Sudip Bhattacharya
Read the full article from Protean Magazine, here.
Sudip Bhattacharya’s interviews with workers at an Amazon facility in Staten Island reveal ruthless conditions, management’s overwhelming power—and how, despite that, they’ve found solidarity in organizing the Amazon Labor Union.
From Democracy Now!
Watch the full interview from Democracy Now! here.
“I want to really emphasize that what makes the history of Alabama unionization important was the role of the left. You know, the fact is, the reason why we have anti-labor legislation, we have violence against labor in Alabama, what appears to be conservatives, the reason we have Jim Crow and the disenfranchisement of Black people, the most draconian anti-immigration laws, is precisely because those who rule the South know the potential of an interracial labor movement, because they’ve seen it.”
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