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...Jennifer Abruzzo, who took over as the government’s chief prosecutor of labour law violations a year ago, is working to limit the ways some of the country’s largest employers can subvert employee unions....
...Last year, a group of Amazon warehouse employees made history by organising the company’s Staten Island distribution centre without the backing of an established union....
...Workers at a warehouse known as JFK8 in the New York borough of Staten Island had voted in person over a five-day period that ended on Wednesday....
...Amazon labour union vote After Staten Island workers won a milestone battle to organise a union at the ecommerce company, staff at another facility across the street will cast ballots in their own union...
...Connor Spence, an Amazon employee and one of the lead organisers in Staten Island, said it felt “incredible” to play a role in one of the largest NLRB settlements in American history....
...Less than two weeks later, worker Christian Smalls led a walkout of workers concerned about coronavirus at a plant on Staten Island, New York. He was promptly fired....
...Like most campuses, Penn leans left, says Jennifer Knesbach, a senior from Texas....
...‘Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath’, by Jennifer C Hunt, is published by University of Chicago Press...
...Cellist Natalie Clein, violinist Jennifer Pike, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and trumpeter Alison Balsom – all beneficiaries of the scheme – are among the many performers....
...A Staten Island Ferry had also been chartered to allow the borough’s workers to reach Manhattan. “We’re expecting a normal schedule. Its business as usual,” said a Nybot spokesman....
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