Amazon crushed the Alabama union drive – can the Teamsters do better?
by Steven Greenhouse from Technology | The Guardian on (#5KF8T)
The Teamsters union is rich, strong, and experienced - and it's ready to help workers and give Amazon a headache
The announcement that the Teamsters - one of America's most powerful unions - is going to mount an ambitious campaign to unionize Amazon warehouses across the US presents the e-retailing colossus with a far bigger threat than the recent effort to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama ever did.
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