Smalls has been celebrated by everyone from President Joe Biden to Jesse Jackson as the prime author and strategist of what the New York Times called “one of the biggest victories for organized labor in a generation,”
Amazon is posing as a friend to veterans who need jobs when they return home from military service — while mistreating those veterans just as brutally as any other Amazon worker.
Rightist media set the stage for fascist violence
The Apple store unionization vote comes against a backdrop of other labor organizing efforts nationwide — some of them rebuffed.
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The battle for digital sovereignty, based on a concept of sovereignty that rests with citizens, involves recovering the internet as a network of peers and reversing the oligopolistic trajectory that has produced a handful of billionaires.
"No government," said Senator Bernie Sanders, "should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters."
It’s not often there is a strategic opening created by the confluence of a favorable NLRB, a supportive presidency, a tight job market, and a roiling economy. This is not a time to cling to paradigms wedded to past conditions. Now we can "Think Big."
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.
States battle over abortion rights, and the Amazonization of work
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