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An Honest, Pro-Union Assessment Of The Amazon Holiday "Strike"
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An Honest, Pro-Union Assessment Of The Amazon Holiday "Strike"

From an objective viewpoint, it is hard to argue that the “strike” at Amazon was anything more than a large protest that garnered much media attention.

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By Peter List, Editor | January 7, 2025

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Suppose one were just to come right out and state that the so-called 5-day “strike” against Amazon before the holidays was nothing more than a protest. In that case, one might be accused of being unsupportive of unions or, perhaps, even “anti-union.”

However, when someone like Luis Feliz Leon, a staff writer and organizer at Labor Notes, provides a comprehensive analysis of the “strike” as he did here, one might conclude that the “strike” was really a protest and not a strike.

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