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Last Friday’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor elicited a barrage of gloomy headlines. The New York Times emphasized “weak” jobsgrowth and fretted that“hiring challenges that have bedeviled employers all year won’t be quickly resolved,” and “rising wages could add to concerns about (...)
A Review of Worked Over: How Round-The-Clock Work is Killing the American Dream by Jamie K. McCallum (Basic Books, 2021); Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, by Sarah Jaffe (Bold Type Books, 2021) and Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and The (...)
It seemed like everything was set for victory. A large, powerful corporation that took advantage of poverty wages paid in a southern state. Union organizers who countered company propaganda by highlighting connections between “civil rights and union rights” to a predominately African-American (...)
First, we must recognize that the overwhelming vote against the union in Bessemer marks a decisive defeat, not to be under estimated. It will undoubtedly have a dampening effect on other workers, especially given its broad media attention, and the high expectations of many. Yet, before (...)
The cameras and news trucks may be leaving town. But at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, where the company won a closely watched unionization vote last week, the fight isn’t over. And at Amazon’s other warehouses, it’s just getting started.
At the press conference held by the Retail, (...)
After a week of counting by the United States National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a majority of those casting a postal vote at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama rejected a unionisation effort by the Retail, Warehouse and Department Store Union (RWDSU).
Workers voted 1798 to 738 (...)
In a major setback for the U.S. labor movement, last week the union organizing drive at the giant Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama defeated. Workers voted 1,798 against and 738 for the union in a union representation election in which only about half of the 5,876 eligible workers (...)
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are voting on whether to become the first unionised Amazon warehouse in the United States.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) mailed ballots to nearly 6000 Amazon workers, who will decide whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store (...)
The death of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney has evoked examinations of his legacy. One can praise the good things but its important to address the bad things so we can have a more accurate understanding of his time.
The February 2021 death of AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeny has evoked a (...)
Biden and Harris are not going to stop the crises we are facing — mutual aid projects are essential to survive and build the world we want to live in.
The only thing that keeps those in power in that position is the illusion of our powerlessness. A moment of freedom and connection can undo a (...)
Seventeen years after the release of Kim Moody’s pamphlet The Rank and File Strategy for the socialist organization Solidarity, and two decades after Moody’s then prescient assessment of the state of the working class, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, his recent (...)
More unions are stepping up to join the anti-racist fight in the Unites States, as the disproportionate impact of coronavirus hits oppressed communities. They are a high percentage of essential workers in the hospital, medical support, retail and food service industries.
Tens of thousands of (...)
Criticizing labor is hard for socialists. On the one hand we know the unions are the underdog in the class struggle, and it’s painfully apparent that our society has suffered because unions are so weak. At the same time, it’s clear most unions can’t or won’t live up to their social and political (...)
The working class in the United States faces tremendous difficulties, but there are some hopeful signs of movement in workplaces and unions, in communities, and on the left. As this article was being edited, the national uprising against the police murder of George Floyd spread across the (...)
Al, today we’ll be discussing worker challenges to their employers during the COVID epidemic – about health and safety and pay, and also of worker challenges to what the corporations like to call management prerogatives. In winning the right to collective bargaining, trade unions in the U.S. (...)
Stores’ risk scores are based on more than two dozen metrics, including racial diversity, employee turnover, and “tipline” calls.
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing, according to five people with knowledge of the effort and internal documents (...)
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A fired Amazon employee activist called for the company’s tech workers to go on a one-day virtual walkout during a controversial online meeting with warehouse workers Thursday.
“Do you think this is right? Are you OK with the firings (...)
Late Monday morning, 30th of March, workers at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse (Staten Island, New York, USA) stopped work after at least one employee has been tested positive for Covid 19, according to a statement from the group’s management. Employees told the management that they were aware that (...)
More unions are demanding that all non-essential workplaces be shut down, to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
On a Labor Notes webinar March 30, essential workers pleaded with everyone else to please stay home. https://labornotes.org/2020/03/video-dont-die-wall-street-essential-workers-why-every
Labor Notes has organised several Zoom meetings with labor leaders and organizers to talk about what we can do to organize during this pandemic. These are the beginning steps we came up with: Ask individuals and organizations to sign on to the principles and demands below, notifying Labor Notes when you do so and using these as organizing tools. Labor Notes will publicize the demands and the endorsers. Agree to support local and regional actions as workers assert these and other demands. (...)
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