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Amazon Closes Its Operations in Quebec, Laying Off 1,700 Workers

On January 7, exactly three years since the founding of Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), the NLRB ruled that workers at Amazon’s RDU1 fulfillment center in Garner, North Carolina, can have an election.

Amazon workers participated in pickets or short strikes in December. The strikes were in limited locations but a real test of capacity for a growing movement.

Amazon workers at seven warehouses walked off the job starting yesterday, in a major escalation of the Teamsters’ efforts to organize the company. In New York, the strikers faced repression from the police.

Threats started in New York and spread to Chicago and Atlanta after company failed to meet negotiation deadline.

Last month, workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, the first such filing since Amazon took over the grocery chain in 2017. We spoke with some of the workers about the union

Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.

‘UNION’ follows Amazon warehouse organizers through an uphill battle, a stunning victory, and an uncertain future