While it’s correct that the union drive is lining up legal support, this doesn’t address the fact Amazon is firing pro-union workers without cause. In addition, Amazon, just like Starbucks, is firing pro-union workers. They are paying union busters $3,200 a day to dress up like workers and walk around the shopfloor lying and manipulating workers, like they did in the lead-up to the vote at LDJ5. Since workers at ALB1 announced their union drive in June, Amazon has ramped up its union busting efforts. After Amazon announced annual “peak pay” raises that amount to a pay cut, outraged workers across the country are discussing taking action for a $5/hr across the board raise and a union. Louis and in Atlanta, as well as Amazon Air workers in San Bernardino, have walked off the job over pay and working conditions. Amazon warehouse workers in a suburb of St. There are ongoing organizing drives in North Carolina. In response, Amazon suspended 80 workers.ĪLU faces a decisive test this week with the vote in Albany, but the attempts to organize at the trillion-dollar company is much wider. After managers tried to send people home without pay (many workers commute more than two hours to work at JFK8) hundreds of workers confronted managers on the shopfloor, demanding to get sent home with pay. The fire will undoubtedly impact the upcoming union election on October 12th, which is a must-win for the newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU).Īnother fire broke out at the JFK8 Fulfillment Center on Staten Island, where the ALU won its first victory a little over six months ago. One of the fires shut down the ALB1 Fulfillment Center in Albany, NY, which already had one of the state’s worst safety standards to begin with. In the last two weeks, four separate fires have shut down Amazon warehouses. Amazon workers are fed up, and they’re fighting back.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |