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The Guardian - US
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Robert Reich

After Amazon workers’ union victory the Fed must stop tipping the scales for bosses

Union organizer Christian Smalls celebrates with Amazon workers following Friday’s vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York.
Union organizer Christian Smalls celebrates with Amazon workers following Friday’s vote to unionize the Amazon Staten Island warehouse. Photograph: Andrea Renault/AFP/Getty Images


On Friday, Amazon – America’s wealthiest, most powerful and fiercest anti-union corporation, with the second-largest workforce in the nation (union-busting Walmart being the largest), lost out to a group of warehouse workers in New York who voted to form a union.

If anyone had any doubts about Amazon’s determination to prevent this from ever happening, its scorched-earth anti-union campaign last fall in its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse should have put those doubts to rest.

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