unionization

The Union Battle at Amazon Is Far from Over

by Alec MacGillis

The effort to organize Amazon's Alabama warehouse workers has failed. In this, it resembles the early stages of other organizing efforts that led to the brief golden era of American labor. Unexpected contingencies helped push management of American industry to accept unions by the 1940s despite their violent opposition decades before. 

Biden Supports Amazon Workers' Right to Form a Union. Is this a Turn Back to Pro-Worker Policy?

by Martin Halpern

The union election of Amazon workers in Alabama is a signal of momentum for renewing the power of workers, but grassroots energy needs support from the Biden White House (and probably the end of the Senate filibuster) to secure a more equitable society. 

The New Great Depression Is Coming. Will There Be a New New Deal?

Leaders like Elizabeth Warren are hoping that the current crisis will spur the kind of labor organizing that happened in the 1930s as workers fight for economic survival.