"Union": New Film Looks at Worker Organizers Who Unionized First Amazon Warehouse

[Uncle Joe]

The new documentary film Union, premiering this week, follows Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island as they formed the first-ever U.S. Amazon union in 2022. Co-directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story, the film follows “the invisible working class” as they face an uphill battle against the notoriously anti-labor corporation, says Maing, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss the film. We also speak with Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1’s president, Connor Spence, who shares his experience organizing the “most surveilled workforce anywhere” and explains what’s next as the union moves to organize Amazon on a national scale with the Teamsters.

Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/...

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[Stargazer99]

1. It is time for employee owned businesses like Bernie explained near Spain where employee owned

businesses are doing great. Any employee owned business would not be exporting jobs outside the US
and that is one hellva advantage to the strength of the US economy. It has recently revealed that 90% of the increased wealth has gone to the upper 10% and a pittance to the common working person and people are so brain washed that not even a wimper. Capitalism has the common person so well trained.