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Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by bawolff on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:40PM (#30880987)
I don't think its a run-on at all, let alone a text book one.
Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by Maximus9000 on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:45PM (#30881060)
It should be broken into two sentences

Original: "No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon, which many union leaders regard as an existential threat to labor standards across the economy because it touches so many industries and frequently dominates them."

Sentence 1: No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon.

Sentence 2: Many union leaders regard Amazon as an existential threat to labor standards across the economy because it touches so many industries and frequently dominates them.

https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/run...

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:43PM (#30881826)
"Run-on" has an actual textbook definition. This sentence is very long and clunky, and should probably be broken into two sentences for readability, but it's not a run-on.

To illustrate, this would be a run-on:

No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon, many union leaders regard Amazon as an existential threat to labor standards across the economy because it touches so many industries and frequently dominates them.

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by sam0x17 on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:29PM (#30881674)
Pretty sure OP is confused by the concept of "first win" being the object of the first clause. It feels clunky if you don't read your English like you would read algebra.
Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by brimble on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:00PM (#30881267)
It's definitely not. People have just gotten used to very short and simple sentences, these days. Some would call a high percentage of all sentences written before, I dunno, 1970, run-on sentences, plus a good deal of the writing in contemporary but non-general-audience publications.
Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by xmsam on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:34PM (#30881723)
It's not a run-on, which by definition has two or more independent clauses in the same sentence that are not separated by either (1) punctuation such as a semicolon, colon, or em dash, or (2) a comma plus a coordinating conjunction. The first clause is independent (i.e. it can stand alone as a complete sentence), while the second clause is relative.
Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by akhmatova on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:49PM (#30881098)
Then you'd do great writing for the Times.