All About Striketober

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 26, 2021

As Staten Island's Amazon Labor Union is one step closer to forming the country's first union at Amazon fulfillment centers. The worker coalition's president Chris Smalls discusses organizing and next steps. Jane McAlevey, organizer, senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, The Nation's strike correspondent and author of A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Ecco, 2020), wraps up the strikes and labor actions happening nationally. 

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