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Ben Fletcher

SOURCE: NBC News
4/4/2022

How Did Amazon Workers Win a Union? Look Back 100 Years

by Kim Kelly

The radical Black waterfront worker and organizer Ben Fletcher established a model of a democratic, antiracist, integrated labor union on Philadelphia's waterfront that echoes in the worker-led victory in establishing a union at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse.

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Ben Fletcher

How Did Amazon Workers Win a Union? Look Back 100 Years

by Kim Kelly