The fight for 15 campaign, you may recall many years ago when they started with fast food and said everyone should have 15 dollars an hour. And now it's become accepted because overtime workers have been fighting and demanding. We asked amazon to comment on the anti unionizing tactics alleged by liz schuler. They replied, our employees have the choice of whether or not to join union. The first besimer vote was a blow out. For every vote in favor of unionization, there were two point four votes against it. A revote is now way, with a final tally expected soon.
Organized labor hasn’t had this much public support in 50 years, and yet the percentage of Americans in a union is near a record low. A.F.L-C.I.O. president Liz Shuler tries to explain this gap — and persuade Stephen Dubner that “the folks who brought you the weekend” still have the leverage to fix a broken economy.