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Historic Labor Union Win Against Amazon In New York

Syracuse University M.J. Whitman School of Management Assistant Professor Lynne Vincent and Bloomberg Senior Executive Editor Brad Stone join Emily Chang to talk about the Amazon New York warehouse workers who voted to join an upstart labor union. They discuss how this historic victory gives organized labor its first foothold in the company’s U.S. operations…

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Syracuse University M.J. Whitman School of Management Assistant Professor Lynne Vincent and Bloomberg Senior Executive Editor Brad Stone join Emily Chang to talk about the Amazon New York warehouse workers who voted to join an upstart labor union. They discuss how this historic victory gives organized labor its first foothold in the company’s U.S. operations and could embolden workers at other companies.

39 Comments

  1. Janette Johnson

    April 2, 2022 at 1:06 am

    Bezo…. won’t spend all the money he has in a lifetime. These folks aren’t asking for a handout, just not to be stingy. Godspeed and safety to all of them.

  2. Young Eagle

    April 2, 2022 at 2:38 am

    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    For the union makes us strong
    When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run
    There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
    Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one
    But the union makes us strong
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    For the union makes us strong
    It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade
    Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid
    Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made
    But the union makes us strong
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    For the union makes us strong
    They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
    But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn
    We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
    That the union makes us strong
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    For the union makes us strong
    In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold
    Greater than the might of atoms, magnified a thousand fold
    We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
    For the union makes us strong
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    Solidarity forever
    For the union makes us strong

    • Adrian H. Dragan

      April 2, 2022 at 4:36 am

      Eye Love it ! Amen ! Can Eye Use the Song in my International Workers Union ! Hell Mtfkn Yeah ! Dragon Zero of the Global Dragon Workers Alliance Is with You ! Join the International Dragon Workers Union ! Red is my favorite color !

  3. Adrian H. Dragan

    April 2, 2022 at 4:35 am

    Hell Mtfkn Yeah ! Dragon Zero of the Global Dragon Workers Alliance Is with You ! Join the International Dragon Workers Union ! Red is my favorite color !

  4. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:39 am

    My crazy time pass 😂q😂

  5. Susan Smith

    April 2, 2022 at 4:40 am

    Amazon in Europe is fully unionized. Americans need to wake up.

  6. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:40 am

    Your not interest we going other country

  7. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:41 am

    Billioners tax you give

  8. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:42 am

    World net work Small country and rule is not work against …..

  9. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:44 am

    You ask billioners tax why we need your country? Every country give me welcome

  10. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:44 am

    All company is my because i don’t care

  11. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:46 am

    Alibaba fripcart Amazon……… Ex….. All one owner because don’t against that’s not good for country

  12. RULER of the South hill

    April 2, 2022 at 4:47 am

    All country 90%company one owned

  13. Axlerod Horowitz

    April 2, 2022 at 5:46 am

    Damn, looks like Bezos’s cock rocket gonna have to cut out the free tiny bags of peanuts on flights now.

  14. Thomas Gaudette

    April 2, 2022 at 8:53 am

    Unions are the result of mistreatment of employees by the business. Amazon will forever be punished. Saddled with an antagonist partner ie the employees.
    Tesla is paying top wages offering excellent benefits and stock options for all employees. Jeff cannot learn from Musk.

  15. Powered by NATO

    April 2, 2022 at 1:23 pm

    Time to shut down the warehouse.

  16. Magic_Fruit_Bat

    April 2, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    Get ready for union dues.

    • therealslimshady

      April 2, 2022 at 7:17 pm

      Also get ready for fair wages and benefits.

    • wessroberts

      April 3, 2022 at 11:37 am

      I GLADLY pay 75 a month for union dues at my job. The benefits of it far outweigh that small amount.

  17. Christy Bryan

    April 2, 2022 at 1:54 pm

    “Do we need a ‘character’ like that?”… wow 🤦🏻‍♀️! She might as well just say it out right. Bloomberg needs to get rid of her.

    • shadow studios

      April 2, 2022 at 2:49 pm

      Best believe I was grinding my teeth the whole video

  18. Ron Ruggieri

    April 2, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    In the COVID-19 era it has become increasingly obvious to tens of millions of working class and suddenly ruined middle class Americans that our capitalist system -combined with American imperialism – is rotten to the core. History teaches that decaying capitalism needs a FOREIGN ENEMY . That explains all this Wilsonian blather over a SOVEREIGN Ukraine . Our ” interests ” as working class people in the United States and as working class people in the Ukraine have nothing in common with the interests of the American plutocracy or of the Russian oligarchy .
    Applause for the now unionized AMAZON workers.

  19. MrZakatista

    April 2, 2022 at 5:58 pm

    A “character like that,” is exactly what we need – obviously.

  20. Martin Go

    April 2, 2022 at 6:44 pm

    We people have the power.. people don’t let them divide us. If we all unify, we can demand a better pay. It’s that simple

  21. Scott Davis

    April 2, 2022 at 7:41 pm

    WE CAN DO IT! ORGANIZE!! They will send their Pinkertons after us! They have done it before.

  22. D Black

    April 2, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    any higher wages those employees receive will go to paying labor union dues……not a win in my opinion

    • wessroberts

      April 3, 2022 at 11:35 am

      Lol what? Dues are typically less than 100 a month… the pay increase they will likely see will more than cover that. Not to mention better safety and workers rights within the workplace.

  23. Jim Choi

    April 2, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    They need all Amazon workers to Unionize.
    The so-called third party delivery drivers, Whole Food & Amazon Fresh markets.
    If all Amazon unionize, Brick & Mortal companies could compete and forget about Amazon same day or next day delivery.

  24. Jim Choi

    April 2, 2022 at 10:52 pm

    Amazon probably will close the warehouse.
    With unionization, they won’t be able to fulfill same day or next day delivery work.
    Amazon won’t be able to drive workers to the ground.

  25. Micheal Beers

    April 3, 2022 at 12:22 am

    Was Lynne Vicent on DRUGS when she did this interview?

  26. Evilds

    April 3, 2022 at 1:32 am

    Companies and businesses are dependent on workers. So, workers are beginning to realize that they can use the threat of mass walkouts as leverage against employers. Unions will evolve into something independent of company contracts and will instead turn into private organizations that monopolize the workforce and ban members from working with companies that do not meet the demands of the union/organization.

  27. Henrik Frederiksen

    April 3, 2022 at 2:08 am

    we have had unions here in Denamrk since the 1870’s and the work and struggles they have gone through is the reason why danish workers both in the private and the public sector have the rights and benefits we have… 37 hours workweek.. with full benefits even if you are a parttime worker .. 5 weeks vacation, sickleave, 52 weeks maternity leave fully paid, aso aso ..

  28. George Chilidis

    April 3, 2022 at 2:34 am

    Bad choice to be unionist with Teamsters. You keep paying your union fees every week but no where to fight for you. O yes an automatic raise every year that’s all. After I retired Teamsters delay for years to get your $35 every month.
    Must watch the movie ‘’The Irishman‘’ 2019 the the movie will explain how they work against you. More strikes for sure and quality and service will drop.

  29. tom dickman

    April 3, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    $18.00/hr in New York is the equivalent of 5.00/hr in Alabama

  30. Nita Robinson

    April 3, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    If Amazon was doing such a great job connecting to his employees no union would have been needed if he can make millions of dollars a minute he can afford to give employees much more than $15 an hour ….his empire was built on the back of cheap labor damn near close to slave labor

  31. Florida Guy

    April 3, 2022 at 7:51 pm

    Amazon internal leaked email:
    “Christian Smalls is not smart or articulate.”
    Boy did that come back to haunt them. 😂

  32. Snarf Snarf

    April 3, 2022 at 10:24 pm

    I hope bezos closes up shop to show you guys how it really works

  33. Gabriel Smith

    April 3, 2022 at 11:46 pm

    Shut down all the facilities, and show Bezos what true power looks like. We the people hold the power, and that’s why they try to divide us. Although, when we come together, they don’t stand a chance.

  34. Choir Practice

    April 4, 2022 at 1:03 am

    SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

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