Amazon has its first union, but lots more are unlikely to follow
The worker-led success on Staten Island will be hard to replicate
WATCHING THE votes come in, Madeline Wesley, treasurer of the Amazon Labour Union (ALU), becomes emotional. “We really had nothing,” she says between sobs. By a margin of ten percentage points, staff at JFK8, an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York, opted to form the firm’s first American union. The ALU hopes it will not be the last. “I expect Amazon unions will be popping up all over now,” Ms Wesley adds, now smiling.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Not quite primed”
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