Amazon workers in Staten Island form company's first union in stunning upset

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Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to become the company’s first unionized U.S. workplace in a mammoth upset that would be one of organized labor’s biggest victories in decades

An Amazon facility on Staten Island, N.Y., voted to become the company’s first unionized U.S. workplace in a mammoth upset that would be one of organized labor’s biggest victories in decades.

“Two years ago my life changed forever,” Smalls said to reporters, referring to his firing from Amazon amid worker protests of pandemic safety issues that later kindled the unionization campaign. “When Covid-19 came to play, Amazon failed us.” There is little precedent in recent U.S. history for an unaffiliated union to get a toehold in such a large worksite of a company that has actively opposed the organizing campaign, as Amazon has at JFK8 and elsewhere. It is arguably organized labor’s most significant victory at a large employer since a 5,000-worker Smithfield Foods pork plant in North Carolina unionized in 2008.

Irrespective of the final outcome, the Alabama vote was far closer than the 2-to-1 landslide against unionization in the since-voided election — a sign of progress that organizers’ say has“Regardless of the final outcome, workers here have shown what is possible,” RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said during a video news conference Thursday.

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😂😂😂 Unions fook up everything Good luck

They are victory themselves out of a job just like the auto workers did in Detroit.

How will Bezos cope?

Hell Yes !!!

“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were organizing a union”

Ohh God i'm tired......I read Amazon writers at first and I was thinking if there are people who write all the Kindle books.

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