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As goes Amazon, so goes the nation?

Talking to veteran labor organizer Jane McAlevey about the union victory at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse and how workers can build on it

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Anand Giridharadas
Apr 19, 2022
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It was the Yes heard around the world.

Earlier this month, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island faced down management in a much-watched vote to form a union. To the shock of one of the largest and most formidably anti-union companies in America, the workers won.

With little help from large, established unions, Amazon workers — led by Chris Smal…

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