Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, April 7th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

what you need to know today. Brush sanctions against Russia after a civilian massacre in Ukraine

plus the role of TAC in humanitarian work at the war front. But first, today's one big

thing. Amazon workers union victory turbocharges a new labor movement.

By the way, Amazon. Here we come watch.

That's President Biden yesterday praising a victory by Amazon workers in New York in

their bid to unionize. About 55% of the workers at the Staten Island warehouse voted to form

the first US union at Amazon last week. When his ex-husors markets correspondent Emily

Pax says this may wind up spurring union growth around the country. She's here with more

hey Emily. Hi. Let's start with what led up to this moment. Just a remarkable number

of factors all coming together led us to this place. This remarkable David and Goliath

victory. So first, the pandemic, of course, Chris Smalls, who is now the president of the

newly minted Amazon labor union, first started protesting conditions at the warehouse in

Staten Island in 2020. A lot of Amazon workers were upset at the time about the way the

company was handling COVID safety measures like so many workers around the country. It

was a very pivotal time. The second thing is that man at the top of this podcast, President

Biden, this win probably doesn't happen without Biden in the White House. And one of the

first things he did on an operation day was to fire the management friendly general

council of the National Labor Relations Board and replace him with this woman, Jennifer

Abruzzo, who's really taken to enforcing the labor laws with a real zeal. Does the

way that this union organized this Amazon union is this different than what we think of

as the traditional labor union? Like, I think people always think of auto workers. Yeah,

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