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Italian Amazon Workers Strike and Win. Will Unions Elsewhere Follow Suit?

Credit: Giuseppe Picconetti

Italian workers have shown it’s possible to force Amazon to the bargaining table. To replicate this success, unions in the US and elsewhere must make huge resource investments to build up the working-class strike muscle.

There Is No Future for a Labor Movement That Fails to Organize at Amazon

Credit: Calvin Priest

In the 20th century, organizing basic industries like coal, steel, and manufacturing automobiles was key to reviving the labor movement. Today, Amazon workers occupy the same strategic position.

On the battle lines

SeaTac Airport workers on the march to demand union recognition.
‘No money no parcels’: Italian Amazon workers on strike. Credit: Filt Cgil Roma Lazio
SeaTac Airport workers pack City Hall demanding $15 and a union.
Kentucky Amazon workers march for translation right at work. Credit: Calvin Priest
At Amazon's KCVG air cargo hub, Northern Kentucky
On the march at SeaTac Airport. Credit: Jonathan Lawson
Kentucky Amazon organizers
Clergy and workers march in SeaTac. Credit: Jonathan Lawson
Kentucky Amazon organizers’ meeting
CAUSE Amazon organizers in Garner, North Carolina
Fighting for rent control in Seattle City Hall
Italian Amazon workers on strike in Bologna. Credit: Giuseppe Picconetti
Justice for George Floyd protest, Seattle, June 2020
Kshama Sawant at Black Lives Matter, June 2020
Seattle City Hall, occupied during Black Lives Matter movement, June 2020
Tax Amazon now! Rev. Robert Jeffrey, Sr. and other Seattle clergy rally with Kshama Sawant (2nd from left)
Rally for Palestine, Seattle, 2021
Striking carpenter Nina Wurz, 2021
Renee Gordon at rent control press conference, 2021
Kailyn Nicholson at Amazon Spheres
Tiny House Village community members with Kshama Sawant, at City Hall budget mobilization
Budget rally in City Hall