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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…

A year ago, Chris Smalls couldn’t get politicians to return his calls. But on a muggy morning in late April, two of the biggest names in politics — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — were making a special trip to Staten Island, New York to visit with the 33-year-old former Amazon warehouse process assistant, father-of-three, and leader of a resurgent labor movement sweeping the country. Smalls and his former colleagues, organizing under the banner of the newly formed Amazon Labor…

Workers at an Amazon facility in New York have roundly voted against unionization -- dealing a setback to a burgeoning organised labour movement one month after a landmark win at a nearby warehouse.Sixty-two percent of workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility opposed the union push, with 618 employees voting no and 380 in support, according to results released Monday by US officials.The election at the LDJ5 warehouse followed on the heels of an upset April 1 win by the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) at the much larger JFK8…