Money Talks: State of the unions
Money Talks from The Economist
The Economist
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We go inside two historic Amazon union votes in America. One, in Staten Island, New York, where our US audio correspondent Stevie Hertz follows the twists and turns of the first-ever successful vote to unionise a warehouse. The other was in Bessemer, Alabama. Our Mountain West correspondent Aryn Braun explains why a second run of last year’s failed vote looks set to end in defeat once again, but why the threat to Amazon’s business model persists. Then, our US business editor Charlotte Howard and senior economics writer Callum Williams ask if this is a watershed moment or a high water mark for workers’ power, given America’s tight labour market.
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| 1:32.7 | One that you just heard was a repeat of a poll from last year in Bessemer, Alabama that |
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