Media makes mayoral endorsements as Wall Street seeks best candidate to manage New York’s crisis
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Leading media outlets and other representatives of the ruling elite, fully conscious of the stakes amid the deepening social and economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, have begun to weigh in on next month’s vote. Although every Democrat, including those fraudulently labeled as “left,” is fully committed to the capitalist system, the ruling class seeks the most effective defender of its interests. This week the editors of both the
Amazon worker dies at Alabama warehouse, one month after retail union’s failed organizing drive
On Thursday, a worker at Amazon’s BHM1 fulfillment center (FC) in Bessemer, Alabama collapsed while on the job. According to press reports, the worker was taken to the hospital where he later died.
Amazon, which employees nearly 6,000 workers at the Bessemer site, later told news reporters that the worker, whose name was not given, had suffered a “medical incident” and that the employee had not reported suffering from any preexisting health conditions. The company told
Business Insider that it would offer grief counseling to all workers at the facility.
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama voted against unionization on Thursday night. It was a big win for Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S. after Walmart.
by Tyler Durden
By Mark Solomon of FreightWaves,
There is no love lost between Jeff Bezos and Fred Smith, given the unpleasant break- up of their companies’ shipping marriage in 2019.
Yet in decisively thwarting efforts to organize 5,800 workers at Amazon.com s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, Bezos took a page right from the FedEx founder’s anti-union playbook.
Other than about 5,000 unionized pilots that came over after FedEx acquired the old Flying Tiger Line cargo airline in 1988, and a smattering of workers at its FedEx Freight LTL unit, FedEx has remained non-union for its 50-year history. Smith and Co. have beaten back multiple organizing efforts by persuading FedEx workers that wages, benefits, working conditions and an open-door relationship makes third-party bargaining units irrelevant.
Listen 8 min MORE People protest in support of the unionizing efforts of the Alabama Amazon workers, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 22, 2021. Photo by REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama voted against unionization on Thursday night. It was a big win for Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S. after Walmart. The vote drew national attention as organizers pushed to create the first union at an American Amazon facility.
“What you heard is tales of incredibly bad working conditions, people who are disrespected and they want a union to represent them,” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders told MSNBC last month after meeting with Amazon warehouse workers. “So obviously if they win that organizing union drive and I hope they do it will not only be important to Amazon workers in Birmingham, it will spread all over this country to other Amazon warehouses. And