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
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SCOOP: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike to attempt to win their first union contract right before Christmas — the company's busiest time.
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
Canadian postal workers are striking for fair wages and better working conditions. This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable and unions are crushed.
‘Make Amazon Pay Day’ is becoming a global act of resistance against Amazon’s abuse of power.”
Captive audience meetings are a key tool for bosses to destroy union drives. With last week’s outlawing of such meetings by the National Labor Relations Board, labor has a window to take advantage before Donald Trump scales back worker rights.
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