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Workers at Amazon are increasing pressure on the world’s largest retailer with strikes and protests aimed at improving working conditions and wages as the company continues to fend off unionization efforts.

GOP courts blue collar voters but most favor anti-union ‘right to work’ laws and reject laws that would protect right to organize.

Around the world Amazon workers are rising up. Look for some new action on "Black Friday" (Nov. 25) coordinated by a half-dozen unions and worker organizations.

Whether fighting to unionize or exercising the right to accept or reject negotiated contracts, workers are nurturing democracy where we most need it. If we are to save our political democracy, we must begin by establishing a beachhead for democracy in the workplace.

Cracks have started to appear in red states’ anti-union front.

Workers are using direct action to protest dangerous conditions at Amazon warehouses.

An Amazon Labor Union lawyer called the punishment of Staten Island employees "a violation of workers' rights to join in a collective action about the terms and conditions of their employment."