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It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer

It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer A scene from the 2018 Amazon HQ2 campaign in New York City. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union 1035077 NLFXXX10.1177/10957960211035077New Labor ForumJaffe research-article2021 Amazon Workers vs. Bare-Knuckle Union-Busting: Lessons from Bessemer New Labor Forum 2021, Vol. 30(3) 30 –37 It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing Copyright © 2021, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: at Amazon after Bessemer sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960211035077 DOI: 10.1177/10957960211035077 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Sarah Jaffe Keywords Amazon, Bessemer, collective bargaining, unorganized workers, worker centers The Amazon workers union election in The union loss was unsurprising; the big sur- Bessemer, Alabama was the most-covered prise was that the campaign even got to the union drive in many years. The New York Times election stage. This is not a judgment on treated it like a congressional race, with a live RWDSU in particular. The labor movement has vote count on its website. The final count was been struggling for decades, almost entirely 738–1,798 against the union. Amazon declared unsuccessfully, to crack Walmart. And Amazon victory; the Retail, Wholesale and Department is Walmart plus the CIA. That’s a joke. Yet Store Union (RWDSU) filed objections to the Amazon does provide cloud computing ser- conduct of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer

Jaffe, Sarah
New Labor Forum , Volume 30 (3): 8 – Sep 1, 2021
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A scene from the 2018 Amazon HQ2 campaign in New York City. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union 1035077 NLFXXX10.1177/10957960211035077New Labor ForumJaffe research-article2021 Amazon Workers vs. Bare-Knuckle Union-Busting: Lessons from Bessemer New Labor Forum 2021, Vol. 30(3) 30 –37 It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing Copyright © 2021, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: at Amazon after Bessemer sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960211035077 DOI: 10.1177/10957960211035077 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Sarah Jaffe Keywords Amazon, Bessemer, collective bargaining, unorganized workers, worker centers The Amazon workers union election in The union loss was unsurprising; the big sur- Bessemer, Alabama was the most-covered prise was that the campaign even got to the union drive in many years. The New York Times election stage. This is not a judgment on treated it like a congressional race, with a live RWDSU in particular. The labor movement has vote count on its website. The final count was been struggling for decades, almost entirely 738–1,798 against the union. Amazon declared unsuccessfully, to crack Walmart. And Amazon victory; the Retail, Wholesale and Department is Walmart plus the CIA. That’s a joke. Yet Store Union (RWDSU) filed objections to the Amazon does provide cloud computing ser- conduct of the

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