Since late 2021, worker organizing efforts in the United States have culminated in multiple victories against corporate giants, including the country’s first successful unionizations at Amazon and Starbucks. Even if the broader state of unionization in the US is still bleak, this organization of workers is an important step forward on the road to challenging unsustainable business models designed to profit at the grave expense of workers.
In Support of Environmental & Human Rights Defender Jani Silva
Colombian Human Rights and Environmental Defender Jani Rita Silva and her organization, the Asociación de Desarrollo Integral Sostenible Perla Amazónica (ADISPA), have recently received threats challenging their work to defend the Campesino Reserve of the Amazon Pearl of Putumayo, Colombia from corporate abuse.
Amazon’s Working Conditions in Alabama are the Tip of the Iceberg
In a 2019 segment on working conditions in Amazon’s eerily named “fulfillment centers,” Comedian John Oliver gave the world’s largest e-commerce company the brilliant faux-tagline: “Amazon: try not to think about it.” But as the world watched the historic unionization drive at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama unfold over the last several months, ending with a defeat to the organizers earlier this month, the reality of Amazon's labor practices have become harder to ignore.