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Cops bust picket line as Teamsters strike seven Amazon warehouses
By Natascha Elena Uhlmann
Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers at seven facilities in the metro areas of San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Southern California, and New York City are out on strike today, in what the union says is the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history. Unionized workers at Staten Island’s JFK8 fulfillment center have also authorized a strike and could soon follow.
#AmazonStrike and #InstacartStrike are trending on Twitter right now. Don’t cross their picket line.
March 30th 2020 //
Hundreds of Amazon workers on a Staten Island facility today walked out on strike for their health and safety. Simultaneously, Instacart began their strike for their own health and safety. WholeFoods will join them in this strike tomorrow. Millions rely on both of these services in addition to local grocery stores for their necessities during this pandemic and yet workers are STILL not equipped to safety contain COVID-19 cases.
Officials reported there only being 1 confirmed case in the JFK8 Amazon Facility, but the workers on strike today said there were at the very least 10 cases, which you can see here on this livestream, granted it doesn’t get taken down. This is where my blood fucking boils.
In the county I live in there’s “1 confirmed case” at our Amazon facility. There’s also at least 1 case in another local grocery. Both of these locations are close to the Target store where I work. When I read that the local grocery store “quarantined the employee with the case” and “extended their cleaning to daytime hours as well” I started fucking fuming. It’s just not fucking enough, I know they aren’t getting enough supplies to properly contain this shit. I know there’s not much that can be done when they’re still open for operations. I know jack shit is gonna change and the shit is just gonna spread. It’s potentially going to get worse because who knows if anything was properly contained.
It’s fucking ridiculous. We’re basically out here fearing losing our lives or our financial stability.
So, please. Don’t cross these Amazon worker’s picket line, stop using Amazon and Instacart.
Sure! My dumb fucking post may not help on its own, but it’s the least I can do. This fucking frightens me as someone also working in a grocery/department store with arguably tactless cleaning procedures and the lack of truly enforced social distancing as the spread of COVID-19 increases. Please, I know these places are providing vital services, but these are absolutely quickly becoming hubs for people to transmit to larger numbers of people. It’s just not safe anymore.
Yay! It came! I only wish it hadnt been the day of the Amazon Strike. But thats what I get for giving the Beezbos my money in the first place.
usually, I buy all my #nailpolish from Amazon bc it’s easiest to get both DL & s&c in one place but I was given the option to get two new colors today annnd well, strike obviously, so I went w supporting two indie brands (I know at least one is owned by Native women & I think the other is, too!) via #hellahandmadecreations today instead and tbh I’ll probably be using them over Amazon regularly now, too bc 1) cheaper without sacrificing quality 2) way more unique choices 3) supporting creators more directly when I am financially able to feels damn satisfying especially when it’s a hobby related to keeping my PTSD/OCD down & feel more human less embodiment of disability since audiobooks, my other best way of coping & skincare really have to be through Amazon or other unsavory corporations until there are other safe options for them/local library system gives me options again. #nails #amazonstrike https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz86QpYgPzk/?igshid=o8z1ecatsfds
Wouldn’t it be loverly if everybody who reads this never bought a book from Amazon again?
Terrified that independent booksellers might get some tiny share of the season of gifts, good will, and profits, Amazon has just announced that anybody who goes into a local bookstore, scans an item, goes home, and buys the same item from Amazon will get up to five dollars off the price.
If you are really into destroying your community in order to save a buck, Amazon will provide you a phone app for this specific purpose.
from Ursula K. LeGuin’s website, undated, but probably from 2011
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/FlyingSquirrels.html#FlyingSquirrelNew
By Sharon Black
The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nationwide settlement that forces Amazon to notify workers of their rights to organize for union representation is a victory for Amazon workers and all workers.
Can workers use this moment to push forward to organize?
By Sharon Black
The first crack in the Amazon empire is officially opened! It came on April 1, when the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) won its election to represent the 8,000 warehouse workers at the JFK8 facility in Staten Island, New York.
It has given confidence to workers in Amazon warehouses and facilities across the country. Chris Smalls, interim Amazon Labor Union president, has stated that the ALU has already heard from 50 warehouses interested in organizing.
The dynamic force of younger, more militant workers, who reject capitalism and worn-out models, and the engagement of the rank and file, will have to play the key role in reviving class struggle in this country.
By Sharon Black
The workers’ movement owes a tremendous debt to the courage of the majority-Black workers in Bessemer, Ala., who stood up to global supply-chain giant Amazon.
What they have accomplished may not be fully measurable at this point. But what’s certain is that their audacity and courage pushed workers’ issues at the sweatshop warehouses run by billionaire Jeff Bezos to center stage, along with workers’ right to a union.
There will be time to critique the tactics of the mainstream union movement, but right now it is most important to continue our support for the workers.
