Steele: I was often asking yo, what would it look like to try to unionize amazon? And people would say, don't be ridiculous. Don't be romantic. There're other warehouses that people should focus on. But i kept looking into yu, what are the sort of comparative industries that have something in common with how amazon functions to day? You get for that's such a significant portion of the warehouse, er of the industry. The company a amazon, not so much. J f k eight is 83 hundred people, but it's still, it's not like, a huge percentage of amazon's national work force.
Live from New York: Dan interviews Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls, Jaz Brisack of Starbucks Workers United, SEIU Local 1199NE president Rob Baril, Jacobin writer Alex Press, and Labor Notes writer Luis Feliz Leon on the return of labor militancy that we see sweeping Amazon, Starbucks, and workplaces all around the US.
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