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.
Gen Z: Young people like you are winning unions at Starbucks and Amazon. The time to join the labor movement and transform the world is now.
Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse.
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Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it.
Amazon warehouse workers at the company’s JFK8 facility on Staten Island made history today, voting in favor of the Amazon Labor Union. Is this not glorious?
Worker organizing is on the upswing. Here are some principles for building capacity and bottom-up power—in your union drive and in the ongoing functioning of your union.
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