On Sunday, December 15th Black Cat Workers’ Collective (BCWC) and our partners in the Workers Solidarity Circle (WSC) coalition put on our first Workers’ Assembly. The WSC is made up of BCWC, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Labor Branch and Red Pine Revolutionary Collective (RPRC). 

Union is an intimate documentary chronicling the inspiring unionization fight of workers at the  Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. Filmmakers Steven Manning and Brett Story, along with several members of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), documented every step of this campaign through the perspective of an Amazon employee.

When I first got hired as a CNA in a nursing home, the other aides went out on a two-day wildcat strike my first week on the job. It was a small facility in Hopkins, Minnesota that had been devastated by COVID; on a good day, our staff-to-resident ratios were 1:12. That meant in the first hour and a half of the day, you were each expected to get 12 elderly people out of bed, cleaned, dressed, and ready for breakfast. You’d always have at least one person to run downstairs in time to get picked up for dialysis.