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Here’s How We Beat Amazon

Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it.

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Hasnain says:

This, and the broader story of how Amazon workers fought to unionize and won against all odds (and a ton of frankly repulsive actions taken by Amazon) has been inspiring. More power to the workers, and I hope more unions follow - across companies and industries.

“Those one-on-one conversations were so important because Amazon told a lot of people we were a third party. And in the end, that bit them. At first workers would come up to us and be like, “How are you guys able to be in the building? You guys don’t even work here.” Then we’d literally show them our work badge and say, “We do work here — everyone that’s in the union here right now works here.” So they’d be curious at that point. And by the end of our conversations, they often felt bamboozled by Amazon because they realized that they had been lied to.”

Posted on 2022-04-03T00:16:42+0000