When Amazon worker Magda Malinowska spoke out about a coworker’s death at a warehouse in Poland, Amazon fired her. Now a court has ruled that Amazon committed illegal union busting. Malinowska tells Jacobin why Amazon is so afraid of its workers organizing.
The question may be essentially a red herring of whether help is given by the government.
Governments help workers not by their own accord, but because workers struggle to develop power against the state-capital power duopoly that structures our society.
Unions develop such power for workers.
Labor advances not by being helped by government, but by developing power separate from government, for workers.