(Note: None of these anti-union workers that we interviewed provided by Amazon, but were meet randomly in the parking lot of the warehouse, independent of the company anti-union PR efforts. You can watch all the interviews with anti-union workers here) While captive audience meetings are often depicted as being hostile

As I was talking on the phone to my old activist friend Austin Sauerbrei-Brown about how I felt traveling down to cover the Amazon union election, I found myself reflecting on the nearly decade-long battle to unionize Volkswagen in Chattanooga.  My friend Austin was the first paid organizer in many

Payday Report is excited to announce the creation of the Bill Greider Grant for Labor Reporting.  The first recipient is Alexander Richey, a Northern Alabama native. Richey has already been on the ground helping Payday Report and franknews cover the historic union drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama.  Richey is

As young versus old workers get pitted against each other in the union drive at Amazon in Alabama, I thought it would be good to reshare my 2014 classic “The Battle for Chattanooga: Southern Masculinity & the Anti-Union Drive at Volkswagen.”  Cornell’s Kate Bronfenbrenner once told me it was