Worker-led and initiated organizing is certainly positive, as labor writer Eric Blanc points, but this emphasis is one piece of a much larger analytical framework for success in organizing.
Organizing Amazon workers is both an existential challenge and an opportunity for labor. But the company’s cash advantages and operational flexibility mean that traditional union tactics won’t be enough. We need strategies that combine disruption and
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The outcome was a setback for workers trying to score a second election success at an Amazon facility. The union vowed to keep trying to organize.
4,300 workers at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Garner, North Carolina, vote on whether to be represented by the union CAUSE.
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