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How a small group of Amazon workers took on big business and challenged traditional unions

A documentary about unionising the company’s Staten Island warehouse reveals new ways of negotiating with oppressive bosses

The Guardian - UK

Union review – fighting for your rights under the Amazon corporate jackboot

This documentary follows the formation of the Amazon Labor Union, showing how difficult it is for workers working for a company determined to efface their rights

The Guardian - UK

New York mayor and police criticized for lack of action over Jordan Neely’s death

Medical examiner confirmed on Wednesday that 30-year-old Black man died from compression to the neck

The Guardian - US

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‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

The Guardian - US

Editorial: Tesla allegedly fires staffers for labor organizing

Elon Musk really likes bots — except, perhaps, when they’re cluttering Twitter. The also-CEO-of-Tesla likes them so much that he’s built “full self-driving” software that’s so unready for prime time, it just triggered the recall of 362,758 automobiles. (For the record, we love vehicle-assist safety technology keeping cars in their…

Tribune News Service

‘Actions speak louder than words’: Labour movement loses patience over Biden’s ‘lip service’

Joe Biden faced a test of his pro-union claims with a threatened strike on the railroad. Some believe he failed it, Richard Hall reports.

The Independent UK

Workers at Amazon’s largest air hub in the world push to form a union

Employees at the company’s hub outside Cincinnati Northern Kentucky international airport are now mobilizing

The Guardian - US

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Workers at Amazon warehouse near Albany overwhelmingly reject union bid

It deals a major blow to the Amazon Labor Union, which was officially formed in April.

Axios

Commentary: More workers are trying to unionize. Support will be crucial to their success

There’s hardly a term that’s become more cringe-inducing, more empty of meaning than “essential workers.”

Los Angeles Times

The Unionization Wave Is Rising; Can It Survive A Recession?

Unionization is providing a small but energized segment of the workforce hope for better protections. A bigger fight is up ahead.

Investors Business Daily

Labor unions are hot, but their moment may not last

WASHINGTON — American labor leaders see this as a moment for radical change: Workers in Starbucks coffee shops and Amazon warehouses are rising up and demanding representation. Polls show millions more support unions or wish they had the chance to join them. President Biden, with majorities in both chambers of…

Los Angeles Times

Big Tech companies will cover travel expenses for employees' medical procedures, including abortion

Tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Google will cover or reimburse employees for travel expenses related to medical procedures, including abortions.

Tribune News Service

Inside the marathon Zoom call where Amazon seeks to overturn historic union victory

With the existence of a grass roots union at stake, the National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to the Amazon Labor Union's historic victory.

WEKU

Why is Starbucks’ union drive speeding ahead while Amazon’s stumbles?

More than 100 of the coffee shop’s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A new generation is reviving unions. The old guard could help

This is the most exciting — and promising — moment for the nation’s labor movement in decades thanks to the landmark union victories at Starbucks and Amazon, as well as the spread of union drives to well-known companies like Trader Joe’s and Apple. To find similar excitement about unions, one…

The Guardian - US

The key to worker power in America? Let a thousand Chris Smalls bloom

Labor leader and fired Amazon worker Chris Smalls says workers at 100 Amazon facilities have contacted him to set up a union. They need support

Businessweek

Starbucks Baristas Are Unionizing, and Even Howard Schultz Can’t Make Them Stop

The return of the company’s longtime CEO hasn’t slowed the workers, who are inspiring activists at Amazon and showing the extent of labor’s new power.

The Independent UK

Amazon fires two union organisers and several managers at Staten Island facility

Tristan Dutchin and Mat Cusick say they were fired last week over job performance issues and Covid-19 sick leave, respectively

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Salon

Jesus, endless war and American fascism

As Democrats fight (and lose) a rear-guard culture war on abortion, the Christian fascists march toward victory

The Guardian - US

Amazon reportedly fires at least six New York managers involved in labor union

According to the New York Times, the dismissals are regarded as the company’s response to the recent unionization victory

The Independent UK

Biden meets Amazon union leader at White House meeting on ‘extraordinary’ organising efforts

Christian Smalls wears ‘eat the rich’ jacket to White House meeting on union efforts

The Independent UK

Amazon union leader hits back at Lindsey Graham in Senate hearing: ‘You should listen’

‘You forgot that the people are the ones who make these companies operate’

Tribune News Service

Amazon defeats drive to unionize second New York facility

Amazon.com Inc. workers at a facility in New York voted not to join an upstart union only weeks after the group won a resounding victory at a warehouse across the street.

Salon

Bernie Sanders, AOC rally Amazon workers

If Jeff Bezos can afford a $500 million yacht, Sanders said, he can afford to pay living wages

The Guardian - US

Amazon labor organizers push for second union victory in New York

About 1,500 eligible workers at LDJ5 sorting center on Staten Island vote in union ballot, after recent success at JFK8 warehouse

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