What's the Future of Union Organizing After the Amazon Vote?

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Last week, Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse voted down a call to unionize, and that decision has organized labor scrambling. Though a majority of Americans say they are in favor of unions, creating new ones is not easy. Key to the movement’s future is a sweeping piece of pro-union legislation, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which passed the House and faces uncertain prospects in the Senate.We’ll examine the future of organized labor and discuss how rising inequality is shifting the conversation around unions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.6	Then, after workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama rejected joining a union, organized labor
1:36.6	is figuring out what comes next.
1:39.2	Celebrity endorsements and a push by President Joe Biden failed to win over workers,
1:43.6	and it's not the first time.
1:45.5	Corporate employees have turned thumbs down in union drives. The J&J vaccine and the future
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