The Amazon Union Exposes the Emptiness of ‘Woke Capital’
It’s ordinary laborers who have the best opportunity to improve society.
The workers who won a union election at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island earlier this month did something miraculous: They defeated a well-funded and implacable anti-union campaign run by the nation’s second-largest employer, a corporation with almost unlimited financial resources, without the aid of a major union.
The battle isn’t over—the union will still have to go through the difficult process of negotiating a contract—and Amazon will continue its union-busting efforts elsewhere. Still, as Alex Press, who covers the labor movement for the left-wing magazine was “an upset for which there are few parallels in the US labor movement’s post-Reagan history.” The story of the
