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Amazon Fulfillment Center Job Description

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Job Description Amazon Fulfillment Center Warehouse Associate Job Overview You’ll be part of the Amazon warehouse team that gets orders ready for customers relying on Amazon services. Our fast-paced, physical roles take place in a variety of areas including merch, make-on-demand, customer returns, Prime Now, and general fulfillment. You will be selecting, packing, and shipping orders – in some cases, for our super-fast (2-hour or less) delivery service. Duties & Responsibilities Some of your duties may include: Receive and put away inventory Get customer orders ready and pack them up Load boxes into trucks for shipment Use scanners to read bar codes on products View prompts on screens and follow the direction for some tasks Troubleshoot problems Ensure product meets quality requirements Operate power industrial trucks (PIT) such as a forklift or pallet driver, and work at heights up to 35 feet.  Equipment training and certification are provided free of cost. You'll also need to
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Amazon law-breaking in Chicago forces national settlement with Labor Board

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https://peoplesworld.org/article/amazon-law-breaking-in-chicago-forces-national-settlement-with-labor-board/
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NYTimes.com: Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize

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From The New York Times: Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/technology/amazon-labor-deal.html?smid=em-share Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made. 67 A labor activist and his son encouraging motorists to sign union authorization cards outside Amazon's JFK8 distribution center on Staten Island in May.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times By Karen Weise Published Dec. 23, 2021Updated Dec. 24, 2021, 12:42 a.m. ET SEATTLE — Amazon, which faces mounting scrutiny over worker rights, agreed to let its warehouse employees more easily organize in the workplace as part of a nationwide settlement with the Nation
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https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-amazon-warehouse-union-walkout-chicago-illinois-2021  
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Re: NYTimes.com: Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize

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Thanks John! The day before yesterday, Chris Smalls from Staten Island's JFK8 ffc said they would be re-filing yesterday for another election at the NLRB. This was on a show that's mostly behind a paywall, but you can watch the first ten minutes of the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSfPkV0xcUM . Janice Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 at 10:20 AM, John Case <jcase4218@gmail.com> wrote: From The New York Times: Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/business/amazon-labor-deal.html?smid=em-share
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NYTimes.com: Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize

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From The New York Times: Amazon Reaches Labor Deal, Giving Workers More Power to Organize The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/business/amazon-labor-deal.html?smid=em-share
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Rally in Times Square for Staten Island Amazon workers attempting to unionize

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https://pix11.com/news/local-news/rally-in-times-square-for-staten-island-amazon-workers-attempting-to-unionize/ https://pix11.com/news/local-news/rally-in-times-square-for-staten-island-amazon-workers-attempting-to-unionize/ TIMES SQUARE — Wednesday night's rally in Manhattan gave Amazon employees high visibility in their continued efforts to unionize the company's Staten Island warehouse. The group — known as the Amazon Labor Union — tried unsuccessfully in October to get the required number of signatures in order to trigger a vote. This time around, the group's president, former Amazon employee Chris Smalls, says they now have enough signatures to move forward. ADVERTISING He's fighting for improved working conditions, especially as it related to COVID-19. The signature rules are set by the National Labor Relations Board, which has an established, elaborate process for employees trying to unionize. The next step involves the NLRB reviewing what's called, the grou
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