Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the region?
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Canary in the Mine: Striking Miners in Alabama
The five-month strike is about worker power in America. It’s also about fighting for a just transition for carbon-intensive industries.
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Labor After Bessemer
To halt unions’ seemingly endless losing streak, they need a law that lets workers chart their own course.
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Corporate America’s Empty Threats
Uber, Amazon, and others continually vow to leave any place where public-interest regulation might limit their profits. Don’t buy it.
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At Amazon’s Warehouse: Biden Raises Hopes, Rubio Raises Eyebrows
Today on TAP: Marco Rubio backs labor, sort of
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Andy Levin on Amazon: ‘This Is the Biggest Union Election in This Century’
The Michigan congressman met with workers in Alabama who are organizing an Amazon warehouse.
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‘Everyone in the Community Is Cheering Us On’
An interview with Josh Brewer, lead union organizer at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse
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Union Solidarity on Eve of Historic Amazon Warehouse Election
In Alabama, unions gather to support workers seeking union recognition from the Earth’s largest non-union company.
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Warehouse Workers Wage Historic Fight for Union Recognition at Amazon
The corporate giant has gone to great lengths to stop workers in Bessemer, Alabama, from unionizing.