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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney’s Picks: A New Era of Organizing After Amazon/JFK8 Union Win?

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Ralph Chaplin, 1917, Public Domain

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • National Labor Relations Board moves to block a favorite anti-union tactic: Mandatory meetings (Verge)
     
  • If the Senate won’t pass pro-union legislation, can progressive states act to help workers organize? (WaPo) 
     
  • These past Sidney winners present a short video on the backstory of the successful Amazon union drive at JFK8 in Staten Island. (More Perfect Union)
     
  • A leaked Amazon app would ban words like “union,” “plantation,” and “restrooms, and “pay raise.”   (Intercept)
     
  • What Amazon will do next, and how labor must respond. (Prospect)