Related Stories
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Chris Smalls and his best friend, Derrick Palmer, led the first successful drive to unionize an Amazon warehouse.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Jennifer Bates is an organizer with the BAmazon Union, the effort to organize Amazon war
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Biden administration pays lip service to the trade union movement but has done nothing to break the Democratic Party’s long tradition of be
Too Black
The allure of Black representation in high places can be very dangerous.
Saladin Muhammad
The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization.
Donald Shaw
Amazon donated $1.7 million to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation last year as it faced allegations of illegal anti-union work.
Sarah Leonard
Amazon will not stop squeezing every drop from workers until those workers have more power.
Luis Feliz Leon and Joshua Brewer
“We feel like we got a heck of a start, and we’re proud of it, and we’re proud of the workers that are willing to continue that fight.”
Alec MacGillis
Amazon is increasingly defining what entry-level labor now looks like in America.
More Stories
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorThis is an excellent chronicling of the Rwandan government’s racist policies toward the majority Hutu population, writes Ann Garrison.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceBrutal Boss Tweet extorts the border— Lawless low Barr screams, “Law and order!” $campaign manager masquerading as proper copper— Third Reich thug; mirror-avoiding
- Gabriel RockhillFascist modes of governance are a very real and present part of the so-called liberal world order.
- Dylan RodríguezYou can’t abolish systemic anti-Blackness and racial-colonial violence by protecting the system itself.
- Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments EditorThis week Third World unity, police brutality in Democrat-run cities and the failures of the presidential debates were on your minds.