If the Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama, unionises, it would be the most significant achievement in decades for the American labour movement.
It would also be symbolic of the leftward shift in American politics in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic ft.com/content/a7ee3e…
It would also be symbolic of the leftward shift in American politics in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic ft.com/content/a7ee3e…
The push at Amazon comes as union support in America is at its highest point for almost two decades, according to Gallup polling, with 65% of Americans saying they approved of organised labour ft.com/content/a7ee3e… 
There is a particularly stark absence of worker protections in the American south, where campaigners talk of the 'Alabama discount' and 'high-tech Jim Crow laws' — policies that bend over backwards to attract companies in need of cheap, hassle-free labour ft.com/content/a7ee3e…
The labour and civil rights movements have long worked arm-in-arm. When Martin Luther King Jr walked with 250,000 people to Washington in 1963, it was a march for 'jobs and freedom' ft.com/content/a7ee3e…
Amazon’s vast warehouses were once described by company executive Tye Brady as being a 'symphony of humans and machines'. But many workers call them punishing, relentless and dehumanising, without even time for bathroom breaks ft.com/content/a7ee3e…
'This is a very winnable campaign. The question is how many people are willing to take the risk?'
Read our in-depth analysis on the fight to unionise at Amazon, by @Taylorrogers : ft.com/content/a7ee3e…
Read our in-depth analysis on the fight to unionise at Amazon, by @Taylorrogers : ft.com/content/a7ee3e…
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