One year after its surprise victory at a Staten Island warehouse, the only union in the country representing Amazon workers has endured a series of setbacks and conflicts that have […]
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Back to news homeAmazon Labor Union, With Renewed Momentum, Faces Next Test
A vote this week at a warehouse near Albany, N.Y., will help show whether the upstart union can win outside its home base on Staten Island. Read More
Amazon Fires Senior Managers Tied to Unionized Staten Island Warehouse
After Amazon employees at a massive warehouse on Staten Island scored an upset union victory last month, it turned the union’s leaders into celebrities, sent shock waves through the broader […]
Amazon Union Success May Point to a New Labor Playbook
The critics typically acknowledge that the campaigns helped galvanize support for higher wages even if they fell short of unionizing workers. Defenders say the goal is to have an impact […]
How Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer Beat Amazon
In the first dark days of the pandemic, as an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls planned a small, panicked walkout over safety conditions at the retailer’s only fulfillment center in […]
How Amazon Is Resisting Unions in Two Upcoming Elections
On Staten Island, Amazon supervisors often refer to them as “training.” At an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, supervisors refer to them ambiguously as “meetings.” Amazon says they’re officially “small group […]
How Amazon Mishandled Paying Dozens of Workers on Leave
In internal correspondence, company administrators warned of “inadequate service levels,” “deficient processes” and systems that are “prone to delay and error.”The extent of the problem puts in stark relief how […]
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Aim for Union Vote
Tucked in four plastic tubs in a tent by a Staten Island bus stop are stacks of cards with valuable autographs: the signatures of more than 1,700 hourly Amazon workers.“I, […]
Minor League Parks, Stripped of America’s Pastime, Await New Fates
The artwork of elementary school students decorates the office windows behind home plate at Richmond County Bank Ballpark in Staten Island. One encourages residents not to litter. Another drawing, of […]