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The Latest Breaking News from Chris Smalls

Barbara Ehrenreich helped make inequality visible – her legacy lives on in a reinvigorated labor movement

Have you heard of Jaz Brisack, Liz Fong-Jones and Chris Smalls?

The Conversation

D.C. march calls out "politics of greed"

Revived crusade founded by Dr. King focuses on new rise of union organizing at Amazon, Starbucks and elsewhere

Salon

Inside the marathon Zoom call where Amazon seeks to overturn historic union victory

With the existence of a grass roots union at stake, the National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to the Amazon Labor Union's historic victory.

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Billionaire bros turn on Biden

Both Bezos and Musks have curiously found their political voices at the same time — just as labor forces take hold

Salon

The key to worker power in America? Let a thousand Chris Smalls bloom

Labor leader and fired Amazon worker Chris Smalls says workers at 100 Amazon facilities have contacted him to set up a union. They need support

The Guardian - US

Amazon union takes fight to the C-suite

As union fights for contracts, big pension funds with billions in Amazon stock plan an assault on corporate board

Salon

From Amazon to AWJS, is the future of social justice activism post-partisan?

With many activists fed up with the slow pace of change in Washington, they’re turning to business for help ending mass incarceration, Josh Marcus reports from the American Workforce and Justice Summit

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Amazon union head, others meet at White House on organizing

Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met Thursday with union organizers at the White House as the administration looks to boost unionization campaigns

The Independent UK

Amazon Labor Union fails to repeat victory in Staten Island Amazon warehouse election

An Amazon sorting center on Staten Island in New York has voted against unionizing, a month after a larger Amazon warehouse across the street voted to join the Amazon Labor Union.

WEKU

Starbucks workers drive nationwide surge in union organizing

Starbucks workers have driven a surge in union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board. Unionizing has also picked up at colleges, non-profits and pot dispensaries.

WEKU

‘If we can do it, everybody can’: How the Amazon Labor Union is starting a movement

The upstart union took on the retail giant and won. Organisers, labor groups, Bernie Sanders and AOC hope there’s more to come, Alex Woodward reports from Staten Island

The Independent UK

Judge rules Amazon must reinstate fired warehouse worker

The NLRB said it found merit in Bryson´s complaint that Amazon illegally fired him for workplace organizing

The Independent UK

Judge rules Amazon must reinstate fired warehouse worker

A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic after leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect workers against COVID-19

The Independent UK

Amazon union head sparks Fox News debate

Smalls rejected Carlson's attempt to pit the labor movement against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — is it enough?

Salon

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The Guardian - US

‘A marathon, not a sprint’: how Chris Smalls defied Amazon to form a union

Grassroots methods to woo coworkers to join the ‘revolution’ worked even as the company came for him with all its might

The Guardian - US

‘The model is listening’: union’s win at Amazon hatched in a small apartment

A suburban two-bedroom apartment was the HQ from which Amazon’s multimillion-dollar anti-union effort was defeated

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 9 April 2022

Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic and political crisis since the civil war. In previous weeks we've covered the recent downturn. But at the centre of it all is one family. Their history is the key to understanding the present crisis.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: US and allies to hit Russia with new sanctions

US, G7 and EU to target Moscow with new measures as Ukraine says 4,400 incidents of alleged ‘war crimes’ being investigated. Plus, unseen photos of rock history

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The Guardian - US

‘The revolution is here’: Chris Smalls’ union win sparks a movement at other Amazon warehouses

Staff at more than 50 locations have contacted the organizers as a second warehouse is set to vote on a union later this month

Salon

Workers used Amazon's tactics against it

Union organizers say Jeff Bezos' company's tactics backfired at Staten Island warehouse

The Independent UK

Amazon's first-ever union overcomes hurdles, faces new ones

A stunning upset in a union election on Staten Island had brought sudden exposure to the organizers and worker advocates who realized victory for the nascent Amazon Labor Union when so many other more established labor groups had failed before them

The Conversation

Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movement

April 1, 2022, may go down as a pivotal day in the history of American unions.

The Guardian - US

Amazon workers in New York City have two words for Jeff Bezos: Ha ha

Workers in Staten Island formed the first Amazon union in the US. Their victory makes Bezos’s space flight seem like small fry

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The union win at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse is historic indeed

Two years ago, e-commerce giant Amazon devised a strategy to make fired Staten Island warehouse worker Chris Smalls the face of the union organizing movement at the company, as its general counsel wrote in an internal memo that the former employee was “not smart or articulate.”

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Power in a union: The win at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse is historic indeed

Two years ago, e-commerce giant Amazon devised a strategy to make fired Staten Island, New York, warehouse worker Chris Smalls the face of the union organizing movement at the company, as its general counsel wrote in an internal memo that the former employee was “not smart or articulate.”

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