But the company has also begun to face pressure from its corporate employees, over climate change and other issues, and from many warehouse workers around the country who have felt emboldened to speak up. The attention is only likely to increase with Amazon on pace to surpass Walmart as the country’s largest employer in a few years. “If you can do it in Alabama, we can do it here in Southern California for sure,” he said. “Why not save the money and get the books, gifts and things you want?” the website says. A century ago, multiracial steel and coal miners unions around Birmingham were a “cockpit of labor militancy,” Mr. Lichtenstein said.

Source: New York Times January 25, 2021 09:56 UTC