Amazon Labor Union

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  6/27/2022
  

  The Labor Upsurge Calls Us to Rethink Organizing Rules

  by Chris Brooks

  Do the successes of organizers at Amazon and Starbucks mean the age of slow, methodical and gradual organizing is over? Can workers use a union vote itself as an organizing tool to move quickly and defeat union-busting? 

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  5/22/2022
  

  Labor Historian: Amazon's Warehouse Victory is a Big Step, But Just a Step

  Cornell's Ilene DeVault says the organization of Amazon's Staten Island warehouse is more important that unionization at Starbucks for the reversal of the decades-long attack on organized labor in the US. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/14/2022
  

  Amazon Labor's Union Shows "Woke Capital" Still Uses Racism to Divide Workers for Profit

  by Adam Serwer

  "Amazon’s defeat is also notable for another reason: the victory of a diverse group of workers against a mighty corporation that has presented itself as racially egalitarian."

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  4/4/2022
  

  With Amazon Union, What's Old is New Again

  by Rosemary Feurer

  The victory of the Amazon Labor Union in Staten Island doesn't represent a revival of "the 1930s insurgency," but a new generation finding guidance from some of the bottom-up solidarity building strategies from that decade. Today's unionism will have to avoid some mistakes of the CIO to endure.

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  4/4/2022
  

  The Amazon Union Vote is a Win for Hope

  by Ian Rocksborough-Smith

  "Despite historically low unionization rates, recent polls suggest at least 2/3 of Americans approve of labor unions – the highest approval rating since 1965. The ALU seems to have come along at exactly the right moment."