The early struggles for Amazon Labor Union highlight the challenges of taking on one of the biggest employers in the world. It has also renewed questions about whether a grassroots organization, rather than a more established union, is best suited for the task, even though no established union has ever made it this far in organizing a US union at Amazon.
America is in the midst of a potentially historic increase in worker organizing, write Thomas Kochan and Wilma Liebman. Here are four things that must happen to make it a true inflection point in U.S. labor relations.