Amazon Workers Score a Decisive Win in Staten Island!: Today’s vote marks an important victory over corporate power and arrogance—and a crucial step in the fight to unionize the company.

• April 2, 2022
• Posted in Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, The Nation, Unions

Today’s historic win took place in what Amazon calls a fulfillment center. Next up, workers in a nearby warehouse on Staten Island, called a sortation facility (known as LDJ5), will have the opportunity to join their newly unionized Amazon Labor Union colleagues. Nothing helps workers decide to vote yes like seeing other workers win—which is just one of many reasons this victory is so important. Read More

All About Striketober: Brian Lehrer talks with Jane McAlevey and Chris Smalls

• October 26, 2021
• Posted in Interviews, Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Podcast, Strikes, Unions

On the Brian Lehrer Show – Staten Island’s Amazon Labor Union worker coalition’s president Chris Smalls discusses organizing and next steps. Jane McAlevey wraps up the strikes and labor actions happening nationally. Read More

Unions Are a Pain in the Ass. Yet We Have No Choice but to Build Good Unions: An interview with Jane McAlevey

• June 5, 2021
• Posted in Interviews, Jacobin, Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, Training, Unions

  Sam Fleischman and Wen Zhuang, from the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), spoke with McAlevey ahead of her training series on the rationale behind her Bessemer rebuttal, how union popularity should be matched with the right tools, and how these old and new organizing strategies can work in harmony toward building worker power that can win. Read More

Lessons From the Amazon Union Failure in Alabama: Brian and Jane discuss the Amazon warehouse vote

• April 28, 2021
• Posted in Class Struggle, Interviews, Labor Movement, Organizing, Podcast, Strikes, Unions

Brian and Jane discuss why unionization efforts failed at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, what it means for future organizing at Amazon facilities and how the PRO Act might impact the national labor movement. Read More