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Biden, Harris, and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh meet with unionizing Amazon and Starbucks workers at the White House: 'These folks are inspiring a movement'
Christian Smalls of the Amazon Labor Union said Biden joked that Smalls got the president in troubl…
Juliana Kaplan
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Bernie Sanders calls on Biden to cut off federal contracts with 'anti-union' companies like Amazon
Sanders is an outspoken labor advocate, and joined Amazon Labor Union workers at a rally last weeke…
Juliana Kaplan
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Amazon union loses at Staten Island warehouse a month after pulling off a historic win just across the street
The outcome is a blow to the Amazon Labor Union, which won a historic unionization vote in April at…
Sarah Jackson
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Amazon's first warehouse union marked the true turning point towards 'real change' for workers, says a labor-history professor
Christian Smalls went from getting fired by Amazon to kickstarting the labor movement. It's a tippi…
Juliana Kaplan
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Amazon is facing another union vote right across the street from the Staten Island warehouse where workers recently made history by voting to unionize
This follows an election at Amazon's Bessemer warehouse, where the union lost in preliminary vote t…
Sarah Jackson,Katherine Long
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A new nonprofit signals Chris Smalls, president of Amazon's labor union, may be pursuing new projects
The new nonprofit says it aims to raise funds for the Amazon Labor Union, but also that it has ambi…
Katherine Long,Jack Newsham,G…
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President Biden says Amazon union organizer Christian Smalls is his 'kind of trouble' and 'let's not stop'
"I like you, you're my kind of trouble," President Biden told Christian Smalls, the creator of the …
Juliana Kaplan
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As Amazon and Starbucks workers notch major union wins, UBS says we're in a labor environment 'not seen for decades'
While UBS says it's "too early to declare pro unionization a trend," businesses are taking notice o…
Juliana Kaplan
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Bernie Sanders invited the Amazon union to testify in Congress. Lindsey Graham says Sanders 'determined Amazon is a piece of crap company.'
"The idea that we would actually hear from the working class of this country is in fact radical," S…
Juliana Kaplan
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Amazon Labor Union's vice president, Derrick Palmer, resigns after assault charges become public
Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls announced the resignation of vice president Derrick Palme…
Katherine Long,Jack Newsham
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Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls caught on camera fighting Amazon worker last year amid union rift
Chris Smalls rose to fame by taking on Amazon. But some critics within the Amazon Labor Union fear …
Katherine Long,Jack Newsham
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Meet the Biden labor lawyer who wants to crack down on companies making workers sit through anti-union meetings
Bosses can make you sit through an anti-union meeting. Jennifer Abruzzo, a key labor lawyer appoint…
Juliana Kaplan
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In potential leadership shakeup, Amazon Labor Union agrees to hold new elections for top positions
The Amazon Labor Union will hold new leadership elections, which could see the departure of the cur…
Katherine Long
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Chris Smalls, Amazon Labor Union president and founder, tells Business Insider he will not run for reelection
Chris Smalls led the Amazon Labor Union to a historic victory, then grew distant from organizing, m…
Katherine Long
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Amazon says New York union organizers gave workers weed to help secure unionization votes
The claim features among dozens of objections filed by Amazon in its bid to overturn a vote to form…
Sam Tabahriti
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Amazon held 25 mandatory anti-union meetings each day in the weeks leading up to the Staten Island union vote
Unions and a federal labor-relations board have challenged employers' use of mandatory meetings to …
Katherine Long
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Labor board rejects Amazon's push to overturn its workers' historic union victory
All 25 of Amazon's objections to the workers' vote are to be "overruled in their entirety," an NLRB…
Matthew Loh
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Bernie Sanders lays out 2 possible economic futures for the US — powerful billionaire oligarchs or a powerful unionized middle class
Unions at Amazon and Starbucks have seen historic wins recently for the working class. Sanders says…
Juliana Kaplan
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An Amazon warehouse in New York has successfully voted to unionize, the first of its kind
Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted to form a union. It's the first successful campai…
Katherine Long
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Amazon Labor Union's vice president faces criminal charges over allegations he choked his girlfriend
If convicted, Amazon Labor Union vice president Derrick Palmer may be ineligible to serve in union …