What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Next Amazon Union Fight
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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Following their victory in Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is still facing an uphill battle. Both the company and the union are closely watching the organizing vote at a warehouse outside of Albany, NY.
Guest: Noam Scheiber, labor reporter for the New York Times.
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:13.5 | There is this moment from April that I've been thinking about a lot this week. |
| 1:16.7 | It's when the Amazon Libre Union won the Longshot vote to unionize its first warehouse in the US. |
| 1:24.2 | A facility called JFK8 in Staten Island. And it was simply huge. Considering this was Amazon, |
| 1:32.2 | a company as responsible as any for transforming American work life over the last generation. |
| 1:37.8 | It was a massive joyful victory for the small upstart union known as the ALU. |
| 1:44.4 | We got the juggler. We went for the juggler. And we went for the top dog because we want every |
| 1:50.4 | other industry, every other business to know that things are changed. We're going unionize. |
| 1:57.1 | We're not going to quit our jobs anymore. |
| 2:00.2 | But when I asked Noam Shiver who covers Libre for the New York Times, what he remembered from that |
| 2:04.8 | moment, he had a very different mental image, one from before all the jubilation. |
| 2:10.6 | You could watch the video of the count. The NLRB was streaming on Zoom. |
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