At Amazon, big organizing campaigns by established unions are only the most visible face of labor organizing. The other is Amazonians United, a militant shop-floor group with a presence around the country.
Despite defeat in Alabama, workers are fighting to form and run unions at the tech giant on several fronts.
The Amazon organizing drive has drawn attention to just how much the deck is stacked against workers and unions. The Pro Act would provide a much-needed update to labor law after decades of rising inequality and an erosion of collective bargaining.
The investors calling for Amazon to cease pushing back on the unionization efforts collectively hold more than $20 billion worth of the company's shares.
National Labor Relations Board denies Amazon bid to delay election and says vote can be conducted by mail
After six days off the job, the strikers at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx ratified a contract that doubled management’s wage offer and defeated a health care cost increase.
All workers should be unionized. Like what Bernie Sanders says, take care of the working man. We are the ones that make this country move. So just throw us a little crumb. You guys are still gonna be rich.
The company has also sent anti-union text messages to workers and posted anti-union banners in its facilities in the lead-up to a union election at its Bessemer, Alabama facility.
Ultimately the effort will require the dovetailing of internal worker organization at multiple facilities—like what Amazonians United is doing—with the power and resources of one or several national unions, like RWDSU or the Teamsters, for instance.
Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements.
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