2022 Retrospective | Amazon Gets Its First Union
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week we look back on some of our favorite stories from a year that had us asking—sometimes with excitement and sometimes with exasperation—"What Next”? This episode originally aired March 21.
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Few were betting that a group of workers on Staten Island could win union recognition at their Amazon warehouse. Now that they’ve done it, can they replicate this win at other shops across the country? And what will the nation’s largest unions do to help Amazon workers join the labor movement?
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Guest: Steven Greenhouse, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.
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| 1:02.0 | Hey everyone, as 2022 comes to a close, I'm going to replay a few of our favorite episodes from the last year. |
| 1:08.0 | Today, in a year when union organizing seemed to pick up steam, |
| 1:13.0 | there was one union that got a ton of attention. Amazon. |
| 1:18.0 | We spoke with Labour reporter Steve Greenhouse back in April. |
| 1:21.0 | That's when a Staten Island warehouse became the first Amazon facility to organize. |
| 1:26.0 | We wanted to know what that vote really meant. |
| 1:29.0 | Alright, here's the show. |
| 1:37.0 | Steve Greenhouse wrote the book on the American Labour Movement. |
| 1:41.0 | Literally, it's called beaten down, worked up, |
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