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As goes Amazon, so goes the nation?

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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

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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