Amazon’s NYC Warehouse Workers Vote to Unionize




The Brian Lehrer Show show

Summary: <p>In a vote that came down to 2,654 votes in favor to 2,131 against unionization, New York City's warehouse Amazon workers become the first in the nation to unionize. Jane McAlevey, organizer, senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, <em>The Nation</em>'s strike correspondent and the author of <em>A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing &amp; the Fight for Democracy</em> (Ecco, 2020), and Gwynne Hogan, reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, discuss the vote and what comes next.</p>