April 8, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: A New Era of Organizing After Amazon/JFK8 Union Win?

Photo credit:
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)