the nlrb, again, a trump majority, rejected it. it is possible that amazon will try to litigate aspects of this election. but i think that in this case, it will hold up. the mail ballot itself will not be subject to really intense scrutiny. i think the other thing that has happened is that this agency, not a well-known agency although it has existed since 1935, is now in the public eye. it is in the public eye because it is holding a workplace election. what is on display is workplace democracy. emily: what is to stop amazon from just firing workers? or what if the union wins and amazon just shuts the warehouse down? wilma: in theory, that can happen. the law makes that unlawful. you cannot discriminate against people who want to unionize or engage in union activity. you cannot retaliate against them. the problem is that the law takes a long time. the challenge for litigating those types of practices can be delayed. meantime, workers may be out of work. the remedies under this law are extremely weak. all that the nlrb can do if the

leaders who did not sign would lose access to the nlrb protections.members were kicked out in 1949 in part with the help of the naacp. this is a story that is relevant to today, because of course,, jeff bezos gave a lot of money to black organizations during the black spring in juneau 2020. -- in june of 2020. after the push out of mind mill, which weaken the labor movement in bessemer, that is when alabama becomes a right to work state. even after that, through industrialization, concentrated poverty, the loss of industrial jobs, ongoing struggles against state violence, and a new set of organizations that emerged like the alabama economic action committee, the southern organizing committee for economic justice, these are the organizations that laid the foundations for a civil rights, social justice, black union kind of organizing, and also multiracial organizing, which laid the foundation for what is happening in bessemer with the amazon workers. amy: what do you expect to come out as you follow this closely, of the vote? robin: i suspect we will wi

it was a new report from nbc news, and it found out that the number of charges filed with the nlrb, thelabor board, against amazon has more than tripled during the pandemic. at least 37 charges filed. for walmart that number is eight. for jbs, the meat pros sessioning plant the number is nine, so there is something different going on here, and i think that's one of the biggest questions coming out of this, carl, is there going to be a domenie eschneck are we already seeing this because no doubt warehouse workers around the country are looking at what's happening in bess america alabama. the vote is started to be counting today and thinking what can we do? should we take action? >> yeah. i'll be waiting for results. we're not going to get it any time soon but obviously it will be an enormous story when we do get the result that's where we'll start this morning. jill carlson joins us today, principal and slow ventures. talk about, jill, what they are calling sort of a watershed moment in u.s. labor relations i hate to ask you, if you have a guess as to how this vote goes, but i wonder if

but the nlrb ordered a safer mail ballot election instead. amazon circumvented that ruling and had a mailbox placed in the parking lot under a tent covered in anti-union propaganda and urged employees to vote there. this is why the p.r.o. act gives workers the right to choose the method of their own election so they can vote away from such coercive environments. electronic union elections aren't new. the national he mediation board has conducted secure elech tropic elections in the rail and airline industries for almost two decades without a single problem. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and the p.r.o. act. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. and reserves. mr. scott: madam speaker, i yield one minute to the gentlelady from michigan, ms. talib. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized for a minute. ms. talib: nation deserve human dignity. that means the r

we don't comment on specific cases where it is before the nlrb or could be before the nlrb so we won't weigh specifically on amazon. broadly, he believes workers should have a right to organize and hence he conveyed that in the video. reporter: lastly on burma and myanmar. sanctions on myanmar, because we keep seeing these bloody crackdowns. are you coordinating with allies to look at more action? jen: we are absolutely. we put out a statement yesterday from national security advisor jake sullivan. let me reiterate a couple of the pieces from that that we remain alarmed by the burmese security forces violence against peaceful protesters, the killings represent an escalation of the ongoing crackdown on pro-democracy protesters since the february 1 coup. we're preparing additional actions on this latest outbreak of violence and the coup. we expect to share more in the coming days. go ahead. reporter: back to saudi arabia. during the campaign, obviously, former vice president joe biden was well aware of the history of the u.s. government in terms of who they sanctioned and who they haven'

observers and media but now some are saying it could conflict that requirement remain independent of nlrbal labor relations board. a congressional delegation scheduled to visit the amazon facility to support the union vote. among congressman attending, andy levine, jamaal bowman, cori bush. charles. charles: gerri, thank you very much. where are the republicans in this fight? why are they not traveling to alabama? i want to bring in republican senator mike braun of indiana. to me this could potentially ultimately impact every single worker in america. it doesn't seem like the gop is fighting hard enough. this ultimately foes from amazon to right toe work, to superseding states rights. this is huge. i don't see any real, true, republican opposition down there? >> well, when it comes to the whole issue of the unionizing right-to-work states, i'm from indiana. went through the whole right to work legislation. i think we had a walkout on the other side of the aisle and i believe that was during mitch daniels tenure. so right to work should be just as up there as the right to unionize and char

this year because the terms are staggered, but he did appoint the general counsel recently to the nlrbh more prolabor. could you talk about the impact that is having on the potential for future union drives? >> i would also mention what it is having on this union drive as well because labor law in this country is tilted for employers and to make it difficult for workers to ever be able to achieve a union. and that is incredibly unfortunate. we saw that the truck board often sought to make it even worse for workers trying to organize. lengthening time periods, giving employers more time to try to intimidate and interfere with workers. we need to -- we need to change the way we conduct union elections in this country, but that means two things. it means we need to have a board composed of people who are going to be supportive of what is the policy of this country, which used to promote collective bargaining and unitization. and it also means that we have to change the laws in this country that now make it so difficult for workers trying to get a collective voice to be able to achieve uni

he put somebody in at the nlrb that not only will probably support grad students being workers but actually is the person that wrote the decision that college athletes were workers. so yeah peter was the district, the person who wrote the decision at northwestern football players were in fact entitled to a union. which is another chapter of my book. actually been like sort of a low-key labor thing but it's actually could potentially have a lot of really good affects for a lot of people in the university system that we have people who recognize this is work. so we will see. but yeah adjuncts organizing i think the women are profiled in the book as an adjunct to new york city which of course means she's taught it like every institution in new york and was part of the unit is part of the union at the university where they did win a pretty good contract and raise $70000 per class. so it is still not full-time for it's not tenure-track. but it is at least got to a point where it is somewhat livable. in fact this is a question from sheila. given this is the era of the gig economy, do you think th