Amazon workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York (known as JFK8) have voted by a majority to create the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). The ALU is the first labor union to be organized by Amazon employees, and prevailed despite the company’s long history of union-busting and anti-union propaganda served to its workers. The …
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The Gilded Age in the United States took place in the last few decades of the 19th century, and was a time of vast economic gains for the wealthy at the same time as the working class struggled to capture these gains in wealth as their own. It was an era of rampant political corruption, …
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In the US, 1 in 8 Americans live below the poverty line. 500,000 medical bankruptcies occur each year, and 43,000 people die from lack of basic medical care. Americans are alone among residents of the developed world in that they are not guaranteed paid time off or even family leave. Those who dare advocate for …
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