Ocasio-Cortez to unionized Amazon workers: victory is ‘just the beginning’
by Richard Luscombe from US news | The Guardian on (#5YGJ0)
Democratic congresswoman joins Bernie Sanders in Staten Island and says workers' successful effort was first domino to fall'
The progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Amazon's first unionized workers in New York on Sunday that their victory was the first domino to fall" in what she expected to be a wave of similar votes for representation across the country.
The leftwing Democrat joined Vermont senator Bernie Sanders on stage in Staten Island to celebrate the historic achievement and to call for workers in more Amazon facilities in the US to follow their example.
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