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The Global Fight to Organise Amazon

Taj Ali

Even as Amazon has grown to become one of the biggest companies in the world, its workers have organised across borders to fight for better pay and conditions. In both their successes and failures, there are lessons for the labour movement.

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Panic, fear, uncertainty. Everything changed after March 2020. A deadly disease was spreading fast, brick and mortar businesses went bust, and long-term employees lost their livelihoods. But for billionaire Jeff Bezos, business was booming. His trillion-dollar company was opening a new warehouse in the US roughly every twenty-four hours and cementing its position as an […]

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