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Amazon has historically opposed trade union recognition by engaging in union suppression practices, like resisting trade union recognition through coercion. (Shutterstock)

If Amazon wants to be the ‘Earth’s best employer’ it needs to listen to employees

Geraint Harvey, Western University

Amazon can become the Earth’s best employer, but this must involve democratizing the workplace, recognizing the legitimate right of employees to organize and cooperating with labour representatives.
Staten Island’s Amazon distribution centre union organizer Chris Smalls celebrates with union members after getting the voting results to unionize their warehouse on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Why did Amazon workers win the fight to form a union in Staten Island but not in Alberta?

Jordan House, Brock University and Paul Christopher Gray, Brock University

Staten Island’s Amazon union has proven that one of the most powerful anti-union companies in North America can be unionized.
Thousands of teachers from the Peel District School Board hold a one-day strike in Mississauga, Ont., in February 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

The advantages of unionization are obvious, so why don’t more workers join unions?

Stephanie Ross, McMaster University and Larry Savage, Brock University

Wanting a union and securing a union are two very different things. That’s because there are enduring obstacles to unionization that make it incredibly difficult for workers to unionize.

Related Topics

  1. Alberta
  2. Amazon
  3. Foodora
  4. Labour
  5. Labour movement
  6. Labour relations
  7. Labour unions
  8. Unionization
  9. Unions
  10. Walmart

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