After renovations, the new Brass Rail was three times the size of the former restaurant and now had four rooms: a dining area, a tap room, a new kitchen and
When Jeff Bezos saw that workers at the ALB1 fulfillment center voted 406 to 206 against the union, there is no doubt he breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Amazon seems like a tinderbox right now, and a victory at ALB1 could have spread like wildfire.
In late September, Amazon workers already
None of the upstart unions has won a contract yet, Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay report. But there is a new sense of possibility among workers at some of the country’s biggest nonunion employers.
By Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay
Labor Notes
“Seven months ago, if you asked me about a union
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. On June 9, Pasquale Pat Cioffi, a worker and lead organizer with the Amazon Labor Union, was fired by Amazon from his job at the company’s JFK8 warehouse. The attack is part of a larger campaign of worker repression since JFK8’s successful unionization on April 1, 2022.