By Alina Selyukh Source: NPR It's a new chapter in an effort to push Amazon to recognize its unionized U.S. workers. The independent Amazon Labor Union, which made history organizing the first and only unionized Amazon warehouse, has voted to affiliate with the hefty Teamsters. For two years now, Amazon [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times One year after its surprise victory at a Staten Island warehouse, the only union in the country representing Amazon workers has endured a series of setbacks and conflicts that have caused longtime supporters to question if it will survive. In interviews, a [...]
By Shirin Ghaffary Source: Recode A year ago, Chris Smalls couldn’t get politicians to return his calls. But on a muggy morning in late April, two of the biggest names in politics — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — were making a special trip to Staten [...]
By Spencer Bokat-Lindell Source: The New York Times Last week, workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island delivered one of the biggest victories for organized labor in a generation when they voted to form a union — the first such organizing effort to succeed at any Amazon work site [...]
By Zak Failla Source: Greenburgh Daily Voice Workers from the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island voted overwhelmingly to unionize, making history in becoming the first in the company’s history to successfully form a union. Now, Amazon is determining its next steps as they challenge the result of the vote, [...]
By Anglika Maldonado Source: Jacobin Magazine After decades of union decline, Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Taking on and defeating Amazon would be a David versus Goliath story no matter who led the effort, but it is [...]
By Karen Weise and Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Workers at Amazon’s massive warehouse on Staten Island voted by a wide margin to form a union, according to results released on Friday, in a stunning win for a campaign targeting the country’s second-largest employer and one of the [...]