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An informational picketer at the HQ2 construction site in Arlington. | TN Long ARLINGTON, Va.—On Saturday, Feb. 20, the Southern Workers Assembly coordinated over 40 solidarity events around the country in support of the workers at the Bessemer, Ala., Amazon facility who are currently in the midst of a vote to unionize their workplace. The unionization campaign there, called the BAmazon Union, is organized by the Mid-South Council of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Matt Rogers (left) and Karishma Mehta (right) near the Amazon HQ2 site in Arlington. | TN Long Sever...

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They're calling them "resignation bonuses."

Morgan Lewis lawyers – high-paid union-busting thugs By Betsey Piette posted on February 16, 2021 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bosses hired Pinkerton Agency goon squads to infiltrate unions, break strikes and intimidate workers who were trying to organize. Graphic: supportamazonworkers.org Today’s hired union-busting thugs are more likely to be high-paid lawyers tasked with turning labor laws — intended to protect workers — into weapons against union organizing. In the 21st century, bosses pay an estimated $340 million a year to a handful of law firms to do the dirty ...

Stunning that Amazon’s groundbreaking union vote is in Alabama Updated Feb 14, 2021; Today’s guest columnist is Eli Cohen. When I first saw that Amazon’s biggest unionization effort to date was taking place here in Birmingham, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I grew up in Birmingham. Even as a child, I was politically involved, travelling to Montgomery to visit lawmakers at the capital, and later to learn the dark sides of our history at the Equal Justice Initiative. I was no expert, but I thought I understood Alabama politics. I didn’t know everything, but I was confident Al...