March 7th 2021
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This month, workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse will be deciding whether to take a momentous step forward for the labor movement by being the first employees to unionize at Amazon, which has thus far proven impervious to organizing efforts. It is...
As Jon covers in today's News and Commentary, Amazon has a "voluntary resignation program" through which it pays warehouse employees about $1000 to quit their jobs. According to reporting on the program, this is an annual "offer" that Amazon makes each February to...
The biggest story in labor – the union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama – continues to take new twists and turns. Amazon, who has seemingly pulled out every trick in the book to stop the workers from electing the Retail, Wholesale and...
In Bessemer, Alabama, the Amazon unionization campaign continued apace this weekend – and so did Amazon’s efforts to thwart union organizers and its own workers. Amazon has adopted increasingly extreme measures to ward off the impending unionization, including...
Yesterday, President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Jennifer Abruzzo, Special Counsel for Strategic Initiatives for the Communications Workers of America (CWA), to serve as the next General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Biden’s...
Karen Lewis, the visionary former leader of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), died yesterday at 67. She had been battling cancer since 2014. A high school chemistry teacher for 20 years, Lewis rose to power in the CTU by co-founding the CORE caucus which challenged...
The long-running dispute between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and the city’s school district (CPS) may be nearing its end. On Sunday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Union announced a tentative deal that would resume in-person learning in a series of staggered...
On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board rejected Amazon’s attempt to delay a unionization vote in its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. Amazon, in a formal request issued last month, asked the Board to postpone the vote to further consider the company’s proposal...
Record numbers of holiday shoppers are doing their gift buying online this year. This is placing enormous stress on warehouse workers employed by online retailers like Amazon and Target, who report unsafe conditions as they pack into indoor warehouses and struggle...