April 12, 2021 New Orleans Likely this hasn’t been right at the forefront of your mind, even though we have talked about this before, but the great Berlin, Germany, rent control revolution has proceeded and picked up steam, so that we can start to determine lessons and outcomes to …
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A Hard Look at the Amazon Bessemer Union Election – Part I
April 10, 2021 Pearl River The results of the union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama are finally tallied and the scorecard by the numbers was 1798 voting NO to be represented by RWDSU/UFCW with 738 voting YES for the RWDSU. There were 500 challenges that were uncounted in the box, largely by …
A Hard Look at the Amazon Bessemer Union Election – Part II
April 11, 2021 Pearl River There’s no way to put sugar in your coffee. The union’s loss at Amazon is deeply disappointing. A victory would have been a huge blast of wind pushing us forward. The defeat, so widely observed, is gale force knocking us backwards. The union knew they were going to lose and, …