December has been a historic month for the US trade union movement.
Two weeks ago, workers at a Starbucks café in Buffalo, New York voted to form a union, making the store the first of over 8,000 US locations of the coffee chain to unionise.
Starbucks is by no means an outlier. Unions are coming for the tech industry. In January this year, Google employees formed the Alphabet Workers Union. HCL, Instacart and Glitch are other other significant examples.
And while several attempts by Amazon workers to organise have been thwarted or unsuccessful, unionisation is picking up pace at the world’s largest e-commerce company. Last month, US labour officials declared the firm improperly pressured warehouse staff to vote against joining a union during a recent election, and ordered a redo.
Why is this a noteworthy trend? And why now?
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