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Nooses, Anger and No Answers: Inside the Uproar Over a Future Amazon Site via NY Times WINDSOR, Conn. — The town of Windsor has developed a niche in the world of warehouses and manufacturing, taking advantage of wide open spaces and crisscrossing interstates in nearby Hartford. Walgreens has a large facility here, as does Dollar Tree. So when Amazon approached the town last year with a proposal to add a large distribution center — adding up to 1,000 jobs — local officials considered it a great opportunity. “There are other mayors and selectmen that would give their left arm to have Amazon in their town,” Mayor Donald Trinks said in a recent interview. “It was worthy of our attention and our support of the project.” But instead of uplifting the community of nearly 30,000 people, more than a third of whom are Black, the development has sent the town up in arms. On at least four separate occasions in the past three months, workers building the Amazon warehouse found ropes that looked like

  The Teamsters Are Taking On Amazon And here’s how they plan to do it. BY STEVEN GREENHOUSE JUNE 28, 2021 Amazon faces a big new threat: the mighty Teamsters union, which is one of the nation’s biggest, strongest, and richest labor unions. On Thursday, delegates to the Teamsters convention overwhelmingly approved a resolution that called for mounting an ambitious campaign to mobilize and organize Amazon workers across the United States. The resolution said that “building worker power at Amazon and helping those workers achieve a union contract is a top priority for the Teamsters.” With 1.32 million members and a reputation of fighting for and delivering to workers, the Teamsters union is intent on being more successful at organizing workers at ferociously anti-union Amazon than the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union was. That union lost badly in its recent effort to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama. The Teamsters’ resolution suggests stepped-up militancy in confront

A recent Times project that examined how the tech giant manages its workers took months of reporting and hundreds of interviews. b y Maria Cramer July 4, 2021 Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Last summer, amid a hiring spree at Amazon so gigantic it left historians struggling for comparisons, Karen Weise , a Times reporter who covers the company from Seattle, brought up a puzzling question to her editors. Approaching the million-worker mark, Amazon was on track to becoming the largest private employer in the United States. Yet, in spite of solid wages and generous benefits, it was quickly cycling through employees. Why? Executives had an “almost palpable fear of running out of workers,” she said later. In August, she got a call from Jodi Kantor , a Times reporter in Brooklyn who was talking to workers from a variety of industries who were struggling with strict rules about time and atten

 Map of Amazon Fulfillment Centers by Address via a Folium Map This is still a pretty raw map, but I have used the Folium mapping library in Python to build a Flask app on Microsoft's Azure cloud. ( it does not render on Google's Blogger    platform.) It is an interactive map. The markers, when clicked, display the facility address, but can be modified to popup any content that can be rendered in HTML. Here is the link.   The map currently opens at the near max zoom on the US continental "OpenStreet" Map service, Use the + and - signs in the upper left to zoom further in, or out. The map will begin soomed on Coffeville, Ks! Click the minus sign 7-10 times to see the whole US, and the 182 locations, as of 2019. Here is a clip view: