A historic win: the new Amazon Union

Episode 67 with Paul's Ego

It’s official. With a vote of 2,654 to 2,131, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island have created the first Amazon union. NPR’s Andrea Hsu reports that the anti-union campaigning tactics Amazon mounted were formidable: it forced workers to show up to meetings where they were pressured to vote against the union, it displayed “Vote No” signage, a…