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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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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

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

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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Comrades,  I am going to send along a list of some videos and industry data/analysis that I have found to be helpful in understanding the nuances of Amazon's business model/processes. A deeper understanding of the company's financial outlay, profitable divisions, loss leaders, and future plans can help us to tailor our strategy to the company itself and more accurately identify points of weakness. Amazon Specific Business Model Analysis/ Explainers Amazon DSP Drivers Reveal The Challenges Of One-Day Shipping How Amazon Delivers On One Day Shipping As Amazon Air Expands, FedEx And UPS May Suffer Amazon Is Quietly Shipping Non-Amazon Orders To Compete With FedEx, UPS How Amazon Beat Supply Chain Chaos With Ships, Containers And Planes How Amazon Makes Money What's Behind The Hot Emerging Market Of Amazon Seller Aggregators How Amazon Fends Off Unions Why Amazon Is Going After Netflix Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour with AWS How Amazon Uses Explosive-Resistant Devices To Transf

I highly recommend watching this ex-Amazon warehouse worker tell his experience, fired for mentioning a union: https://youtu.be/USQx-K7uC_M . Janice Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, December 21st, 2021 at 1:34 PM, John Case <jcase4218@gmail.com> wrote: https://youtu.be/G8K8up9EyGg

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Amazon slammed by protesters as 'Grinch that stole our homes' over planned Nashville hub Nashville activists took aim at Amazon Tuesday, warning the company's planned downtown hub would displace Nashvillians and create other problems. Check out this story on tennessean.com : https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/12/11/amazon-nashville-hub-protest-pathe-housing/2276695002/

https://timesnewsexpress.com/news/finance/banking/amazon-has-quietly-rolled-out-over-30-warehouses-this-year-in-rural-and-super-rural-areas-as-it-looks-to-take-more-delivery-share-from-ups-and-the-us-postal-service/ check out http://organizeamazon.blogspot.com for more Amazon updates. John

 https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/workers-of-the-world-salt-at-amazon Workers of the world: Salt at Amazon! by  Amazon Workers Collective     Oct 28, 2020     8 min read     Amazon warehouses experience peaks in volume twice every year: during the holiday season and during their summer Prime Day event. To deal with the surge of online orders, Amazon hires extra staff – marking the newbies with white badges and permanent workers with blue ones. White badges come in with the hope that they will survive the peak season to land a permanent position, along with the salary bump and benefits that entails.  The 2019 holiday season was the biggest online shopping event to date. Turning to employment agencies to fill the demand for order pickers and packers, Amazon hired thousands of workers, almost entirely people of colour, swelling the “fulfillment centre” (Amazon-speak for warehouse) in which we work from around 1,800 workers to more than 3,000 in just over a month. The contracts

Reining in Big Tech : The metaverse looms. With your latest headset and implants, there may be real stores, but the only ones you know are virtual, on Amazon. There may be real workplaces, but the only one you work in is a Microsoft Virtual Office.

Amazon preparing its next offensive, but it can't bust unions forever https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/amazon-preparing-its-next-offensive-but-it-cant-bust-unions-forever/ "Amazon won't let us leave." That was the last message 46-year-old Larry Virden sent his girlfriend on the evening of Dec. 10. A short time later, a tornado blasted through Edwardsville, Illinois, and shredded the Amazon fulfillment center warehouse where Virden worked. When the roof of the massive facility came crashing down, he and five co-workers were left dead. Cherie Jones, his partner of 13 years, is now in mourning and explaining to their four children why dad is never coming home. According to Jones, Virden could have gotten back in time to shelter with his family—if only his employer hadn't ordered workers to stay at the facility. Amazon claims supervisors moved to get as many workers as possible to designated safe spots in the warehouse, but Virden's final text is a rallying cr