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Where’s the Heat, Where’s the Hammer

Peter Olney Convergence
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.

We Can Organize Amazon, but Only if We Understand It

Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, Benjamin Y. Fong and Scott Jenkins Jacobin
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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Amazon Union Push Fails at North Carolina Warehouse

Danielle Kaye and Rebecca Davis O’Brien The New York Times
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.

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The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods

Whole Foods workers say they’re surveilled, tracked to the minute, and have to work two jobs to survive. Workers are organizing to form the first Whole Foods union.

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Amazon Continues Union Busting

Karen Weise and Vjosa Isai The New York Times
Amazon Closes Its Operations in Quebec, Laying Off 1,700 Workers
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