The Amazon Labor Union beat a behemoth — can it keep winning?
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YHKM)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, workers at Amazon's LDJ5 warehouse facility will vote on whether to organize with the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), the same union that pulled off a historic win at another Staten Island, New York, facility earlier this month. With ballots scheduled to be counted on May 2nd, the election will last just one week. After months of slow buildup, workers are just a week away from learning whether their site will unionize - assuming there aren't any tiebreaker court fights of the kind that held up Bessemer's second vote.
The ALU is riding high after the election at the JFK8 facility, and it's fair to say momentum is on the side of the organizers. But the loss in the first Bessemer election is still fresh, and the stakes are high. The...