It was one of the biggest labor wins in decades, against one of the most powerful companies in the world. On Friday, workers at Amazon’s JFK8 facility in Staten Island voted to form a union. On the road to this victory, they faced terminations, arrests, and other obstacles set for them by Amazon’s union-busting campaign.
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