Duke professor works undercover with NC workers pushing for first Amazon unionization in South
For two years, Professor of Cultural Anthropology Orin Starn worked undercover as an Amazon warehouse worker — most recently at RDU1 in Garner, N.C. — conducting ethnographic research to “see what it was really like” to work at the company’s facilities.
Now, after two and a half years of organizing, workers and pro-union advocates at the warehouse have launched unionization efforts to secure better pay and improved working conditions. If successful, they would establish the first unionized Amazon facility in the South and the second in the country. Read more.