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Amazon workers organized by the Teamsters Union go on strike and walk a picket line in front of the DBK4 Amazon facility on December 20, 2024, in New York City.Four thousand workers at a North Carolina Amazon warehouse are voting February 10-15 on whether to unionize with Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment.
They’ll also need to overcome widespread fear of something Amazon is notorious for: retaliation. In January, Amazon abruptly outsourced its entire QuebecOn January 7, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that workers at RDU1 had signed enough union authorization cards to trigger an election. “Under the National Labor Relations Act I should have been allowed to flyer on the premises,” said Orin Starn, who had worked at Amazon for six months. “But the police, who in the small town of Garner where Amazon is the biggest employer act as a kind of private security force, didn’t care and just took us off to jail.”four workers and injured dozens more.
“They’ve found fractures in this situation, and have capitalized on it well: on the prejudices of Hispanic workers, differences between ethnic groups,” said Duron. The establishment of a Latino organizing committee was a turning point. “The organization boomed after that,” Medelius-Marsano said. “Within three to four months, we had at least 30 really strong Spanish-speaking leaders that were showing up weekly, and we were figuring out how we’re going to achieve full coverage of the warehouse.”
“People are going to the meetings just to get a break from work,” Pedroza said. “They can rest for an hour, so people keep going to the meetings. Then when they leave, they tell me, ‘I’m voting for the union.’”We’re not backing down in the face of Trump’s threats.
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