NEW YORK: When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle.
David won. And the stunning upset on Friday brought sudden exposure to the organisers and worker advocates who realised victory for the nascent Amazon Labor Union when so many other more established labour groups had failed before them, including most recently in Bessemer, Alabama.
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