What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight

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🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 29 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	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
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0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
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0:29.2	video.
0:42.8	There is this moment from April that I've been thinking about a lot this week.
0:50.3	It's when the Amazon Labor Union won the long-shot vote to unionize its first warehouse in the U.S.
0:53.5	A facility called JFK-8 in Staten Island.
1:03.8	And it was simply huge, considering this was Amazon, a company as responsible as any for transforming American work life over the last generation.
1:10.5	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 small upstart union known as the ALU.
1:12.2	We got the juggler.
1:13.2	We went for the juggler.
1:21.5	And we went for the top dog because we want every other industry, every other business to know that things are changed.
1:23.2	We're going to unionize.
1:24.5	We're not going to quit our jobs anymore.
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