Unions Rising: Amazon v Labor | A Conversation with Max Alvarez
The Marianne Williamson Podcast
Marianne Williamson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Marianne talks to Real News Network editor-in-chief Max Alvarez in the wake of the historic vote to unionize a Staten Island Amazon warehouse.
The two discuss the lead up to the vote, why it was successful as well as the history of labor in the United States.
Read, listen to and watch Max Alvarez's work: https://therealnews.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody. I'm really excited about the program tonight because I get to talk to one of my favorite people |
| 0:05.5 | His name is Max Million Alvarez and he is the editor-in-chief of the real news network in Baltimore |
| 0:11.6 | He is also the author of a book that will be published in June |
| 0:14.8 | It's called the work of living working people talk about their lives and the year the world broke |
| 0:20.3 | Which is a collection of interviews with workers conducted during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 0:27.0 | His work has been featured in a range of outlets including the nation in these times Boston Review and the Baffler |
| 0:34.5 | Also, you can find Max on Twitter at max million underscore a LV |
| 0:40.2 | Max Alvarez. Thank you so much for being here. Hey, Marianne. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here |
| 0:46.4 | Right back at you. Well, you and I were talking before about what a serendipitous moment this is |
| 0:51.5 | I wanted to talk to you about the general arc of the labor movement in the United States |
| 0:55.8 | One of the things that I so appreciate about you and the work you do is that you are a big picture person |
| 1:02.4 | And I think that part of the problem so we have in America today is how many people aren't quite connecting the dots |
| 1:07.0 | So you talk very specifically about the plight of working people in the United States particularly |
| 1:12.3 | There be trail by the economic and political structures of our day |
| 1:16.8 | But you give a historical context that I know from me always makes things much easier to understand and |
| 1:24.0 | I think a historical perspective is very empowering now |
| 1:27.8 | It just so happens that we were talking after really a moment that I think you'll agree with me |
| 1:33.0 | We'll go down in the history books and that is |
| 1:36.3 | The unionization of the Amazon JFK 8 warehouse in Staten Island and movement that was led by Christian Smalls |
| 1:43.9 | His having raised what a hundred and twenty hundred and forty thousand dollars on a go fund me page |
| 1:49.7 | The union busting. I think it's fair to say the absolute union busting efforts of Amazon trying to make that happen |
| 1:56.8 | Swelved up to greater than four million dollars |
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