Pivotal week kicks off for Amazon unionization campaigns
Workers at a Staten Island, N.Y., Amazon facility will begin voting in person Friday on whether they want to unionize.
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Workers at a Staten Island, N.Y., Amazon facility will begin voting in person Friday on whether they want to unionize.
(Bloomberg) -- When a retail union targeted an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Alabama last year, organizers generally avoided provocation, holding rallies far from the facility and urging placard-carrying activists to stay off the company’s property.
Christian Smalls, an upstart labor leader hoping to unionize Amazon facilities in Staten Island, New York, has taken on an aggressive strategy against the e-commerce giant.
In the midst of an escalating war crisis and attacks on workers, critical questions of political perspective and the role of the unions must be seriously examined.
Workers at the New York City branch of REI, an outdoor clothing and equipment seller, voted overwhelmingly this week to join a union