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Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movement

  • Written by John Logan, Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movementThe start of a movement or a moment?AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez

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

In a result that could reverberate in workplaces across the U.S., the independent Amazon Labor Union – first formed in 2020 by Chris Smalls, an Amazon worker fired for protesting what he saw as...

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