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Amazon demands workers work nights or get laid off, prompts walkouts in Minnesota
November 14, 2022E-retail giant demanded 29 workers, many of them migrants from Somalia, either change from day to overnight shifts or lose their jobs.
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Amazon Labor Union’s Chris Smalls: ‘We shocked the world’
October 19, 2022Most important, he says, is that they shocked billionaires “determined to lord it over workers and the world.”
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Amazon Labor Union vows to fight on at Albany warehouse
October 19, 2022The company ran a dedicated campaign, including threats of firing, against anyone it thought was pro-union.
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Amazon JFK8 warehouse fire: Interview with one of the workers who faced retaliation
October 17, 2022People’s World talks with David Sherwood, a lead Amazon Labor Union organizer who’s been suspended after protesting unsafe conditions.
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Amazon suspends 80 workers for refusing to work following dangerous fire
October 12, 2022A faulty cardboard compactor had been smoking for days. When it finally caught fire, employees immediately stopped work and defied company orders to get back to their positions.
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