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A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic after leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect workers against COVID-19

The union victory at Amazon’s JFK8 facility in Staten Island was truly remarkable. A majority of the employees there voted last week for union representation despite the company’s hard-nosed union avoidance tactics, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history.

A supervisor allegedly told one pro-union supporter not to speak with her because she was “with the devil.”

The feds voided the first union election over Amazon's interference. Organizers say the company is doing it again

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Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) looks to appeal its loss to New York union organizers, the Wall Street Journal reports. Roughly 55% of the workers who cast valid votes from a Staten Island facility named JFK8 chose to side with Amazon Labor Union. WSJ notes that Amazon has accused the union organizers of threatening…

The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board is asking the board to rule that mandatory meetings held by some companies to persuade their workers to reject unions is a violation of federal labor law

Workers at six Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since December, with at least 140 more in 27 states filing petitions for union elections.

April 1, 2022, may go down as a pivotal day in the history of American unions.