{"id":77613,"date":"2022-04-13T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77613"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:43","slug":"house-and-gray-why-did-amazon-workers-win-the-fight-to-form-a-union-in-staten-island-but-not-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/04\/house-and-gray-why-did-amazon-workers-win-the-fight-to-form-a-union-in-staten-island-but-not-in-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE and GRAY: Why did Amazon workers win the fight to form a union in Staten Island but not in Alberta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan House and Paul Gray, Assistant Professors of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-did-amazon-workers-win-the-fight-to-form-a-union-in-staten-island-but-not-in-alberta-181042?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2013%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2013%202022+CID_82d37a9b307487acb82d585ea3e4fed6&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Why%20did%20Amazon%20workers%20win%20the%20fight%20to%20form%20a%20union%20in%20Staten%20Island%20but%20not%20in%20Alberta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about union organizing efforts at Amazon facilities across North America.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAmazon workers in Staten Island have achieved something the\u00a0company has been fighting for years\u00a0to prevent: a union.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0breakthrough at Amazon\u2019s JFK8 facility is being hailed\u00a0as the \u201cmost important labour victory in the United States since the 1930s.\u201d That it was won by the independent\u00a0Amazon Labor Union\u00a0(ALU) is all the more significant, in light of the failures of larger and better-resourced unions like the\u00a0International Brotherhood of Teamsters\u00a0in Alberta, and the\u00a0Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)\u00a0in Alabama.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Union organizing drives are context-specific, and the ALU still has significant challenges ahead, including Amazon\u2019s attempts to\u00a0overturn the result\u00a0and the difficulty of\u00a0achieving a first contract.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nevertheless, the victory in Staten Island and the defeats in Alberta and Alabama provide some key insights into the state of union organizing efforts at Amazon and beyond.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-did-amazon-workers-win-the-fight-to-form-a-union-in-staten-island-but-not-in-alberta-181042?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2013%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2013%202022+CID_82d37a9b307487acb82d585ea3e4fed6&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Why%20did%20Amazon%20workers%20win%20the%20fight%20to%20form%20a%20union%20in%20Staten%20Island%20but%20not%20in%20Alberta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Conversation<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan House and Paul Gray, Assistant Professors of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about union organizing efforts at Amazon facilities across North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[110,522,11454,7229,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77617,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77613\/revisions\/77617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}