Why Politics Matters for Amazon Workers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : But the emergence and fate of these actions was always inseparable from the raised working-class expectations generated by the New Deal; the Roosevelt government's 1933 proclamation of labor rights in Section 7(a); the 1935 passage of the pro-union Wagner Act; the refusal by FDR and most Democratic governors to smash strikes through armed repression; the congressional investigations of union busting by the La Follette Committee; and the legal efforts of the left-leaning "Madden Board" NLRB from 1935 through 1938.
46% : And unless we seize this moment to rebuild workers' organized power, there's no reason to expect we'll ever see a Green New Deal or Medicare for All -- let alone a full democratization of this country's political and economic system.

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