What's the Future of Union Organizing After the Amazon Vote?
Scott Shafer gets an update on the pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and then hosts a discussion about the role of organized labor in today's economy.
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Show Notes
Last week, Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse voted down a call to unionize, and that decision has organized labor scrambling. Though a majority of Americans say they are in favor of unions, creating new ones is not easy. Key to the movement’s future is a sweeping piece of pro-union legislation, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which passed the House and faces uncertain prospects in the Senate.We’ll examine the future of organized labor and discuss how rising inequality is shifting the conversation around unions.
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