Amazon workers in upstate New York are fighting for a crucial second union win
https://www.vox.com/2022/10/13/23401794/amazon-albany-union-vote-alb1-warehouse
The election at the ALB1 Amazon warehouse near Albany could prove the Staten Island union victory was no fluke.
Heather Goodall says the quest to unionize an Amazon warehouse in upstate New York, where a union election began on Wednesday, can be traced back to the suicide of her son, Michael James Fahrenkopf, in 2016. After discovering that a handful of other employees who worked for the same computer chip manufacturer had also committed suicide in recent years, Goodall became concerned that there might be a connection between the deaths and the working conditions inside plants at the $27 billion company. Though she never could prove it, her lingering concerns made her skeptical of the power that large corporations have over their rank-and-file staff and the conditions under which they must work to make ends meet.