Tag Archive | workers' rights

New addition to OKT’s food justice handout series

Feb29

OKT’s executive editor, Lisa Oliver-King presented to the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine 9th Annual Reach Out to Youth Program (ROTY). ROTY is a college sponsored program that is free to all participants and their parents, with the assistance of the MSU Student National Medical Association (SNMA) serving as facilitators.  As one of the activities the kids took part in was a recipe for food to go with coffee, she decided to address the topic of coffee in her presentation. So, OKT communications staff developed this new handout, based on the online article BITTER BREW:
THE STIRRING REALITY OF COFFEE on The Food Empowerment Project website.

“We Just Unionized Amazon”: How Two Best Friends Beat the Retail Giant’s Union-Busting Campaign

Apr7

Click on this Democracy Now! link to watch the video interview and read the transcript.

Hear how two best friends led a drive to organize workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and made history Friday after a majority voted to form the first Amazon union in the U.S.

“I think we proved that it’s possible, no matter what industry you work in, what corporation you work for,” says Christian Smalls, interim president of the new union and former Amazon supervisor. “We just unionized Amazon. If we can do that, we can unionize anywhere.”

Reporter Josefa Velásquez covered the union drive for The City and discusses what the victory means for the broader labor movement.