Workers organize a historic battle with Amazon in New York City ~~

https://www.workers.org/2021/08/58438/

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Cuban unions build socialism ~~ Stephanie Hedgecoke

https://www.workers.org/2021/04/55957/

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‘Make this a new period of working class challenge’

https://www.workers.org/2021/04/55814/

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Amazon Hires Off-Duty Cops to Harass Workers, the Press, and Supporters ~~ Madeleine Freeman

https://www.leftvoice.org/amazon-hires-off-duty-cops-to-harass-workers-the-press-and-supporters

Bessemer, Alabama’s police chief has confirmed that off-duty officers have been hired by Amazon to act as “security” for the BHM1 facility in the middle of a historic and intense union drive. Two Left Voice reporters who were recently expelled from Amazon’s premises by the cops: report from the ground.

LABOR Amazon Launches Anti-Union Website to Derail Alabama Union Drive ~~ Lauren Kaori Gurley

 https://portside.org/2021-01-19/amazon-launches-anti-union-website-derail-alabama-union-drive

Build New Infrastructure for a Broader Movement

https://portside.org/2021-02-22/build-new-infrastructure-broader-movement

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GM 1937, Amazon 2021: Which side are you on? ~~ Martha Grevatt

https://www.workers.org/2021/02/54228/

Bessemer, Alabama, sitting on the outskirts of Birmingham and with a population of 26,500 — about 75% African American — has become a central focus for the entire class struggle.

Biden’s ‘Buy American’ plan deceives workers, lets companies off the hook for layoffs ~~ Jerry Goldberg

https://www.liberationnews.org/bidens-buy-american-plan-deceives-workers-lets-companies-off-the-hook-for-layoffs/

IWW Organizing Manual

https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-iww-organizing-manual

A few snips from the detailed IWW manual about how to organize..

COVID Tipped the Scale: How King County Employees Made Childcare a Union Benefit ~~Michael Laslett

https://labornotes.org/2020/11/covid-tipped-scale-how-king-county-employees-made-childcare-union-benefit

Ten thousand union members who work for King County, where Seattle is located, have won a $9 million fund to cover emergency childcare expenses this school year. Now the union coalition is pushing to make the benefit permanent.

The General Strike ~~ Bill Haywood

https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/

Among the best parts are in the questions and answers at the end.

Bosses Are Charged with Breaking the Law in Over 40% of Union Campaigns ~~ MICHELLE CHEN

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bosses-union-busting-trump-nlrb-labor-intimidation

Labor unions are more pop­u­lar than they’ve been in over 15 years. Yet a record-low num­ber of work­ers belong to them. The gap between the pub­lic per­cep­tion of unions and their actu­al mem­ber­ship illus­trates just how dif­fi­cult it’s become for work­ers to organize.

In a new report, the pro­gres­sive think tank Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy Insti­tute (EPI) found evi­dence that employ­ers are increas­ing­ly brazen in seek­ing to obstruct work­ers’ attempts to union­ize. Records of the Nation­al Labor Rela­tions Board (NLRB), which over­sees pri­vate-sec­tor labor rights and union elec­tions, reveal that in more than 40% of the 3,260 union elec­tions dur­ing 2016 and 2017, employ­ers have been charged with unfair labor prac­tices aimed at under­min­ing elec­toral pro­ce­dures and retal­i­at­ing against pro-union workers.