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This is incorrect. This is not the first-ever strike. There were wildcat strikes across the UK last summer, more widespread than today's it would appear:

> https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523767/UK-Amazon-work...

Media outlets routinely ignore illegal, unofficial, wildcat strikes. They are more newsworthy however, because they express genuine disillusionment amongst workers and their capability to organise themselves without union management.

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Every time I tune in to Democracy Now! I'm amazed at how much labor action is entirely ignored by most of the media (including "leftist" NPR). I mean, it's that or DN is just making it up and faking all those interviews they do with people involved in it, but I don't think that's the case.

If you don't seek out explicitly pro-labor media like that, you'd think there are almost never any strikes or other actions by organized labor in the US at all. Maybe like one or two big pushes per year from one sector or another (like the railroad workers who got screwed recently).

[EDIT] Yet every press release by any halfway-important company makes the papers. At least we're honest about what and who matter in our system: CAPITAL-ism.

Media is in it for clicks/views. Most people are not that interested in labor action unless it's flashy and effects them.

I have no strong opinions on the matter, just commenting on your amazement that labor action is ignored by media.

Saving, thanks! And great point.

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