Jacob Buckner
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jacob Buckner
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En español
Amazon despide a organizador de Staten Island en represalia antisindical
June 14, 2022El ataque es parte de una campaña más amplia de represión de los trabajadores desde la exitosa sindicalización de JFK8 el 1 de abril de 2022.
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Labor
Amazon fires Staten Island organizer in what workers see as anti-union retaliation
June 14, 2022Pasquale "Pat" Cioffi, a worker and lead organizer with the Amazon Labor Union, was fired by Amazon from his job at the company’s JFK8 warehouse.
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U.S.
Brooklyn landlord’s neglect causes tenant to suffer carbon monoxide poisoning
May 25, 2022Flatbush landlords and others in Brooklyn rake in profits at the expense of the health of their tenants.
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Labor
Building the Amazon Labor Union: An interview with co-founder Jordan Flowers
May 18, 2022Along with three of his co-workers, Jordan Flowers helped found The Congress of Essential Workers at Amazon’s JFK8 facility. Two years later, the power of their example is sweeping the entire U.S. labor movement.
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Labor
Staten Island Amazon workers continue the struggle despite harassment
May 16, 2022Winning the union election, they note, is not the end of their struggle.
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Labor
May Day in New York, with labor and the left up front
May 6, 2022Hundreds of people and dozens of unions and radical organizations hit the streets of Manhattan to support workers in the fight against capitalist exploitation.
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Labor
Amazon workers at second Staten Island warehouse organizing union
April 25, 2022Amazon Warehouse LDJ5 will vote on unionizing between April 25 and April 29.
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Politics
New York’s Mayor Adams removing homeless encampments
April 21, 2022Policy is seen as scapegoating of poverty.
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