There is this moment from April that I've been thinking about a lot this week.

It's when the Amazon Labor Union won the Longshot vote to unionize its first warehouse

in the U.S. A facility called JFK-8 in Staten Island, and it was simply huge.

During this was Amazon, a company as responsible as any for transforming American work life

over the last generation.

It was a massive joyful victory for the small upstart union known as the ALU.

We got the juggler, we went for the juggler, and we went for the top dog because we want

every other industry, every other business to know that games have changed, we're going

unionize, we're not going to quit our jobs anymore.

And when I asked Noam Shiver, who covers labor for the New York Times, what he remembered

from that moment.

He had a very different mental image, one from before all the jubilation.

You could watch the video of the canal, you know, the NLRB was streaming on Zoom, and

you just saw all these kind of lawyers and suits, and then Chris Small is the president of

the ALU sitting there, and he's kind of, he's read jumpsuit with his knees kind of bouncing

up and down, you know, and every time we get a little closer, his knees would become

like a little more, a little more frenetic, and you could just tell that the air was going

out of the Amazon side, and he was just getting closer to this thing that he'd kind of dreamed

about, but didn't even entirely believe was possible himself.

How would you describe their mood now?

You know, I think we've come a long way, it's only been six months or so, but it probably

feels like years to them.

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