stuart appelbaum
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Amazon Is Facing a Labour Reckoning, and It’s Pushing Back With All It Has
The ground is shifting beneath Amazon’s mammoth-sized feet. Just days after workers at a Staten Island, New York warehouse voted to create the first Amazon union in the U.S., securities regulators authorised a shareholder vote on an investigation into its treatment of warehouse workers.
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Twitch Pulls Its Parent Company’s Union-Busting Ads
While around 5,800 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama vote on whether to unionise, Amazon has been trying to win over hearts and minds with a slew of ham-handed anti-union propaganda in their warehouse bathroom stalls, on their phones, and now on the Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch. Earlier this week, More Perfect Union tweeted the…