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The campaign of Amazon workers in Alabama to win representation by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) may be a critical turning point in reversing a forty-four- year trend. Since 1978, the corporations and the wealthy elite have accumulated more and more power while the living standards, rights, and power of the U.S. majority have declined. The Amazon union drive points the way to improving workers’ lives and reduces the glaring inequality in the U.S.
As innovative as Amazon has been in many respects, it’s been old-fashioned in its abuse of workers’ safety on the job, its low-wage strategy, its anti-unionism, and its flexing of its monopolistic muscle against competitors. The need to change direction in the U.S. has become more compelling as a result of Amazon’s growing power and the harm done to workers’ health and their well-being in the COVID crisis as a result of their relative powerlessness.