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Workers at Amazon and Google Condemn “Project Nimbus” Contract with Israeli Military
This public action by tech workers follows an increasing number of coordinated actions in the sector to pressure Big Tech companies to cancel government contracts for surveillance technology.
Left Voice
October 13, 2021What Billionaire Space Flights Mean to Healthcare Workers
While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage around the globe and climate disaster is destroying the planet, billionaires are taking joyrides to space. Two healthcare workers who worked throughout the pandemic respond.
Mike Pappas
August 2, 2021Jeff Bezos Is Going into Space. Fingers Crossed He Won’t Come Back
If Bezos, Musk and Co. want to go “off Earth,” then let them. Our task is to ensure that at some point, when they come back, they’ll find the completely irrational, exploitative system of capitalism on which their obscene wealth was based has been dismantled and replaced with a socialist society.
James Plested
June 9, 2021Tech Workers in the U.S. Speak Out at Their Workplaces in Solidarity with Palestine
For the first time, workers at three big tech companies based in the U.S. released open letters to management in solidarity with Palestinian struggle. Workers are also speaking out against the relationship between the tech industry and the Israeli government.
Rose Lemlich
May 28, 2021There is No Substitute for the Rank and File: Thoughts on Amazon Unionization
The Bessemer Amazon union was defeated by an almost 2-1 margin. This wasn’t just due to tactical mistakes. It’s due to a top-down, bureaucratic union model. To take on Amazon’s colossal strength, there is no substitute for the power of a combative rank-and-file movement.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 17, 2021“Its All Hush Hush Now”: Postmortem With a Bessemer Amazon Worker
Left Voice spoke with a Bessemer Amazon worker to discuss the defeat of the union and the possibilities going forward.
Left Voice
April 14, 2021“The Key to Change is for Working People to Organize”: An Interview with Michael Goldfield
Left Voice interviewed Michael Goldfield, author of "The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s." We discuss the Amazon unionization effort in Bessemer Alabama, the tradition of labor unions in Alabama and the need for radical working class organizing.
Left Voice
April 13, 2021Upcoming Panel: Robin D. G. Kelly, A Bessemer Amazon Worker and Others Speak About Black Struggle and Unions
Sign up to receive the Zoom link for the event. Over the past month, all eyes have been on Bessemer, Alabama as 5,800 workers at an Amazon distribution facility cast votes on whether or not to unionize with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Inspired by last year’s Black Lives Matter movement, a […]
Left Voice
April 12, 2021Amazon’s Tent of Lies
Amazon’s ballot-collection tent is straight out of the union-busting playbook.
B.C. Daurelle
April 12, 2021Postmortem on Bessemer Amazon Defeat
Labor historian Michael Goldfield, author of The Southern Key, offers his analysis of why the Amazon warehouse union drive in Bessemer, Alabama was unsuccessful and how similar outcomes can be avoided in the future.
Michael Goldfield
April 11, 2021