{"id":89767,"date":"2021-03-23T15:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=269745"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:13:45","slug":"from-bessemer-to-baltimore-amazon-workers-demand-the-right-to-organize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/23\/from-bessemer-to-baltimore-amazon-workers-demand-the-right-to-organize\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bessemer to Baltimore, Amazon workers demand the right to organize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From Bessemer to Baltimore, Amazon workers demand the right to organize\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfLMqNBbcBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama have entered the final week of voting on whether to become the first Amazon facility to unionize in the US. Their supporters and union allies held an international day of action on March 20, in solidarity with the workers who said they have faced a fierce anti-union campaign by one of the country&#8217;s most powerful and wealthiest corporations. The Real News was the only news site to cover the protest at the BWI Amazon facility, where local Amazon workers, postal workers, and teachers spoke out about the importance of unions, especially during a deadly pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/from-bessemer-to-baltimore-amazon-workers-demand-the-right-to-organize\">From Bessemer to Baltimore, Amazon workers demand the right to organize<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/from-bessemer-to-baltimore-amazon-workers-demand-the-right-to-organize\">The Real News Network<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists held an international day of action to support Amazon workers on March 20, highlighting the ways unions can help defend worker rights and safety protections. TRNN&#8217;s Jaisal Noor reports from the solidarity action held outside of an Amazon facility in Baltimore. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/from-bessemer-to-baltimore-amazon-workers-demand-the-right-to-organize\">From Bessemer to Baltimore, Amazon workers demand the right to organize<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1775,4818,12832,5585],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89768,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767\/revisions\/89768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}