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May Day 2022: Unionize Every Workplace
This May Day, it's time to build a fighting labor movement.
Luigi Morris
May 1, 2022Social Justice Unionism: How ‘Generation U’ Is Building Class Solidarity
Workers are increasingly seeing the connections between their own oppressed identities and their role as exploited members of the working class. Social justice will be won only through this unified force.
Sybil Davis
April 29, 2022‘This Is How Change and Revolutions Begin’: Amazon Call Center Workers in Costa Rica Send Their Support to ALU
As a second Amazon warehouse in New York prepares to vote on whether to form a union, Amazon call center workers in Costa Rica send messages of support and express how important an example the ALU is to all workers across the world.
La Izquierda Diario Costa Rica
April 29, 2022Join Left Voice in NYC For May Day Activities
This May 1st, join Left Voice in NYC in support of Amazon Labor Union and Starbucks Workers United for International Workers' Day.
Left Voice
April 28, 2022‘We Need a Union’: An Amazon Worker Speaks Out About the Union Vote This Week
On Monday, workers at LDJ5 facility began voting to unionize their warehouse. It is directly across the street from JFK8, the facility that made history becoming the first unionized Amazon in the United States. Below is a speech by Mark Saber, an Amazon worker involved in unionizing JDJ5.
Mark Saber
April 25, 2022Round Two for the ALU: the Fight to Organize Amazon Continues
On Monday, 1,600 warehouse workers in Staten Island will vote on whether or not to form the second-ever Amazon union in the United States. In response, the company is using every dirty trick in the book to intimidate workers and undermine the vote.
James Dennis Hoff
April 24, 2022The Amazon Labor Union Is a Problem for Democrats — So They’re Trying to Co-Opt It
The Democrats are fighting hard to co-opt the radically independent Amazon Labor Union. But organizing with Democrats is a dead end; the way forward is through workers organizing across sectors, independent from capitalist parties and politicians.
Jason Koslowski
April 23, 2022Poll Shows 75 Percent of Americans Support Unionizing Amazon Workers
A new poll shows that a supermajority of respondents, especially young people and people of color, support the unionization struggles of Amazon workers. This growing enthusiasm comes against the backdrop of the recent victory among Staten Island Amazon workers.
Maryam Alaniz
April 20, 2022‘They’re Playing Really Dirty’: Amazon Lashes Back in Staten Island Warehouses
The unionization of the Staten Island warehouse shook Amazon. Now, the company is lashing back at other warehouses and ramping up its union-busting efforts.
Luis Feliz Leon
April 16, 2022‘We Can Defeat the Beast’: Amazon Labor Union Holds Press Conference
Over 20 Amazon workers and a crowd of journalists and leftists met on Friday afternoon in Staten Island, New York for a press conference led by the Amazon Labor Union. Workers know that united, they can defeat Amazon.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 12, 2022