After decades in a rut, the US labor movement appears to be reinvigorated. At the Labor Notes conference in Chicago, labor leaders wanted to ensure it's a true upsurge and not just a blip.
In light of the youth-driven surge of union drives at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and elsewhere, the AFL-CIO – the main US’s labor federation – is facing growing pressure to undertake a bolder effort to help today’s burst of unionizing expand far faster
No more arguing over territory or industries—we need multi-union coalitions capable of organizing on a national scale.
Undeterred, Smalls wants all American workers to have access to the organizing strategies that resulted in his union’s historic win, regardless of the company.
A reborn workers’ movement needs both organized workplace militancy and left-wing politicians that back them. Sunday’s Staten Island Amazon rallies — attended by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other elected officials — featured both.
Staten Island Amazon workers endured thunderstorms, racism, and arrests to organize in break rooms, bus stops, and grocery aisles to win their union — and one of the world’s most powerful companies couldn’t stop them. Here’s how they did it.
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The founder and president of the ALU wants workers to know his long history of dedication to Amazon and the workers, what has brought him to be leading this campaign to build the first Amazon labor union in the country on behalf of all Amazon workers
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