What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight

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🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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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 If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There is this moment from April that I've been thinking about a lot this week.
0:13.8	It's when the Amazon Labor Union won the Longshot vote to unionize its first warehouse
0:19.8	in the US.
0:20.8	A facility called JFK8 in Staten Island.
0:24.7	And it was simply huge.
0:26.9	Considering this was Amazon, a company as responsible as any for transforming American
0:32.2	work life over the last generation.
0:35.1	It was a massive joyful victory for the small upstart union known as the ALU.
0:41.4	We got the juggler.
0:42.5	We went for the juggler.
0:44.4	And we went for the top dog because we want every other industry, every other business
0:49.1	to know that games are tanged.
0:52.2	We going unionize.
0:53.2	We're not going to quit our jobs anymore.
0:56.6	But when I asked Noam Shiver, who covers labor for the New York Times, what he remembered
1:00.7	from that moment.
1:02.0	He had a very different mental image, one from before all the jubilation.
1:07.5	You could watch the video of the cowl.
1:09.6	You know, the NLRB was streaming on Zoom.
1:13.2	And you just saw all these kind of lawyers and suits.
1:18.0	And then Chris Small is the president of the ALU sitting there and he's kind of, he's
1:23.1	red jumpsuit with his knees kind of bouncing up and down.
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