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Amazon win shows power of rank-and-file organising
The newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU) won by more than 500 votes, with 2654 workers voting in favour of a union and 2131 voting against, according to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) count. About 7000 people are employed at the site, known as the JFK8 Fulfillment Center.
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South Africa: Clover workers call for nationalisation
Striking workers fear that corporate changes at the dairy giant will lead to reduced local production and increased imports of Israeli products.
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Why Amazon is terrified of Its U.S. workers unionizing
Amazon continues to abuse its warehouse workers, both in its day-to-day treatment of them and in its thuggish, law-breaking campaign to prevent unionization in the U.S.
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Auto Workers win direct Democracy in referendum
It’s a historic win for reformers in one of the nation’s most important unions, where members have pushed for this change for decades.
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How to picket stores that sell your employer’s products
Note: Consumer picketing can be directed against all products that a struck employer manufactures, processes, distributes, transports, or otherwise enhances in value.
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New ‘Union-Busting Tracker’ debuts online
On Nov. 6, a group of volunteers launched a Web page called the ‘Union-Busting Tracker’ to post examples of union-busting. Eleven days later, they’d listed 180 separate cases, naming the employers and the union-busting outfits they’d hired.
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Amazon plays dirty in Bessemer Union Drive: Mass solidarity needed
Everyone knew that Amazon would fight the union drive in one of its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Alabama. But the company’s union-busting tactics are drawing more scrutiny as the final days for workers to mail in ballots draw near.
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An icy rally with burning demands
The survival of polar bears, we know, is sadly threatened. The survival of a more colorful bear species seems assured. HARIBO (an acronym of HAns RIegel BOnn), which makes those little “gold bears” sweets, was founded in a laundry room in 1920.