Reimagining what streets and sidewalks can be
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
At the height of pandemic lockdowns, folks stayed in yet also desperately wanted to get out. Enter the open streets movement, which advocates for roads being temporarily closed off to cars and expanded for pedestrians and public space. Now, advocates in Brooklyn are pushing to make some of those changes more permanent. Plus, manufacturing and construction appear to lose steam, and the Amazon Labor Union will link up with Teamsters.
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| 1:28.0 | First, there's news the Amazon Labor Union is going to link up with the Teamsters Union. This will give the grassroots |
| 1:34.4 | Amazon Union a shot in the arm as it struggles with divisions within its ranks. |
| 1:38.6 | Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser has more. The Teamsters announced on X that its board unanimously approved the affiliation with the |
| 1:46.6 | Amazon Labor Union at a meeting yesterday. |
| 1:49.3 | The Teamsters have long wanted to unionize Amazon warehouses. |
| 1:53.0 | The affiliation still has to be approved by members of the two unions. |
| 1:57.0 | The Amazon Labor Union, which represents workers at just one Amazon warehouse in New York, |
| 2:02.4 | still hasn't been able to negotiate a contract |
| 2:04.6 | with Amazon. Its lost union elections at other warehouses, plus a dissident group |
| 2:09.5 | formed. The ALU Democratic Reform Caucus pressured the Amazon Labor Union to The |
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