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| New York Labor Didn't Shrink from Confronting Amazon |
Ever since Amazon’s plans to open a second headquarters in New York were announced last November, two things have become clear about organized labor and Amazon. First, labor is eager to unionize Amazon, or at least parts of Amazon, a fiercely anti-union company that doesn’t have a single unionized facility in the United States—none of its “fulfillment center” workers, Whole Foods workers, or drivers are unionized. Second, labor is seriously divided about how to achieve its ambitious goal of unionizing Amazon
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| The Rise Of Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries |
<2019_01_hjeffries.jpg>Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on January 23, 2019 (Andrew Harnik/AP/Shutterstock)
When Hakeem Jeffries's House colleagues elected him Democratic Caucus chairman in November, they dropped the four-term Brooklyn Representative into the middle of one of his party’s biggest battles.
He faced the longest shutdown in U.S.
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| Unions aren’t a thing of the past. Unions are our future. |
I have an embarrassing confession to make: I underestimated how much anti-worker extremist groups really hate organizations that empower working people. After all, I have a good union job. Plus, my employer respects and supports collective bargaining.
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