Amazon's first U.S. labor union overcomes hurdles - Portland Press Herald
Outmatched financially, organizers relied on their ability to reach workers personally by making TikTok videos, giving out free marijuana and holding cookouts.
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Outmatched financially, organizers relied on their ability to reach workers personally by making TikTok videos, giving out free marijuana and holding cookouts.
When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle. David won. And the stunning upset on Friday brought sudden exposure to the organizers and worker advocates who realized victory for the nascent…
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