While everyone is talking about the unionization campaign at Amazon in Alabama, there have also been strikes at Amazon in Germany and Italy. Yet union bureaucrats are holding the struggle back.
Over the weekend, Left Voice had the privilege of talking with Frances Wallace, an Amazon worker and BLM activist. Read the transcript of our interview here.
The unionization efforts at Bessemer are bigger than just Amazon. In this dispatch from the ground, Uber drivers, healthcare workers, and young Birmingham residents stand in solidarity.
As Amazon workers in Alabama fight for a union, workers in Italy disrupted Amazon operations across that country in a one-day strike yesterday to call attention to their horrendous working conditions as the company rakes in greater profits than ever.
On Sunday afternoon in Birmingham, Alabama I went canvassing for the Amazon union. The support for the union was overwhelming. The whole community is backing these workers.
Teamsters at a 7-Up bottling plant in the Detroit suburbs have been on strike since March 10, demanding the bosses return to the negotiating table as they confront racist goons who’ve attacked picketers.
The small percentage of U.S. private-sector workers in unions looks to grow as the effort at the Amazon facility in Alabama opens the floodgates. Workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California are discussing organizing drives.
The PRO Act has been almost universally hailed as the most ambitious labor legislation in decades, but it’s a lot more complicated than that.
With unions making headlines in the last few months, it’s crucial to reflect on what unions are, where their power comes from, and what possibilities they hold.
After four years of organizing and two years of contract negotiations, Columbia graduate workers are poised to strike yet again to win their first contract.
While everyone is talking about the unionization campaign at Amazon in Alabama, there have also been strikes at Amazon in Germany and Italy. Yet union bureaucrats are holding the struggle back.
Over the weekend, Left Voice had the privilege of talking with Frances Wallace, an Amazon worker and BLM activist. Read the transcript of our interview here.
The unionization efforts at Bessemer are bigger than just Amazon. In this dispatch from the ground, Uber drivers, healthcare workers, and young Birmingham residents stand in solidarity.
As Amazon workers in Alabama fight for a union, workers in Italy disrupted Amazon operations across that country in a one-day strike yesterday to call attention to their horrendous working conditions as the company rakes in greater profits than ever.
On Sunday afternoon in Birmingham, Alabama I went canvassing for the Amazon union. The support for the union was overwhelming. The whole community is backing these workers.
Teamsters at a 7-Up bottling plant in the Detroit suburbs have been on strike since March 10, demanding the bosses return to the negotiating table as they confront racist goons who’ve attacked picketers.
The small percentage of U.S. private-sector workers in unions looks to grow as the effort at the Amazon facility in Alabama opens the floodgates. Workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California are discussing organizing drives.
The PRO Act has been almost universally hailed as the most ambitious labor legislation in decades, but it’s a lot more complicated than that.
With unions making headlines in the last few months, it’s crucial to reflect on what unions are, where their power comes from, and what possibilities they hold.
After four years of organizing and two years of contract negotiations, Columbia graduate workers are poised to strike yet again to win their first contract.
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