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What Happened in Bessemer?

person with pro-union sign standing outside of an Amazon warehouse

article: Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign by Jane McAlevey from The Nation, 4/9/21

Top labor organizing strategist, author and scholar Jane McAlevey weighs in on the failed effort by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. Some patterns are not unlike those of professionalized Amazon tech worker organizers noted here.

Issue: 
Workplace Democracy
Tags: 
workplace organizing

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