Union organizer Jane McAlevey on labor’s loss at Amazon in Alabama, what the future of labor organizing success depends on, and how organizers can win.
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Workers are quitting hostile workplaces en masse as a form of protest and leaving behind signs explaining why they’ve had enough.
Workers across the nation are rising up and demanding better conditions and compensation. Check out some recent wins for service workers.
Let’s stop whitewashing incomparably greedy billionaires like Jeff Bezos who have accumulated inconceivable riches by exploiting workers.
How local union members stood against the National Guard presence following the police killing of Daunte Wright.
Just three senators stand in the way of the PRO Act and a future where workers can exercise their right to organize without interference from the boss.
Rank-and-file unionism is a strategy to create a more equitable future in which greater democracy exists within a union.
The future of labor organizing for a better future will owe a debt of gratitude in part to the fight of Amazon workers in Bessemer.
Why did the RWDSU, the small-time outfit which ran the organizing campaign, lose this fight? The answer is more complex than some tidy narratives suggest.