The Amazon Labor Union’s (ALU) victory is shaking the country. After unionizing a warehouse for one of the world’s biggest companies, the ALU is being flooded with messages from other workers, from Amazon workers and beyond, asking for help to organize their workplaces. During ALU’s unionization drive, the Democrats were nowhere to be seen. After all, the union doesn’t fit the standard, staid, safe model of bureaucratic unions. Now that the ALU has won, the Democrats are desperate to channel the movement into support for a party for millionaire capitalists — a party that receives millions from Amazon itself. But the wheels of  co-optation are moving — and they’re moving fast. 

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