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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...

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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.

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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.
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