Tag: Amazon
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In Spain, Amazon Workers Win with Quick-Hit Walkouts
At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off. We struck for … Keep reading »
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Booklaunch: Organizing Amazon
Amazon workers in Coventry, England have won breakthrough wage gains through years of strikes and organizing at the global giant. Now, a new book documents these achievements, and the militant, … Watch video »
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Organizing Amazon: An Interview with Amazon Worker Solidarity
Milla Vodello is the pseudonym of an organizer with the Amazon Worker Solidarity (AWS) group in Toronto. Amazon Worker Solidarity is an independent grassroots organization of trade unionists, community activists, … Keep reading »
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How Amazon Workers Can Organise Globally
When will Amazon workers around the world enjoy collective bargaining agreements with good pay, union job rights, and safety protections? The challenges facing this lofty goal remain daunting. One only … Keep reading »
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The Amazon Strike: Performative or Substantive?
The world has radically changed over the past four-plus decades. Unions haven’t. Or at least they haven’t changed nearly enough to match what they’re up against. In this context, unionizing … Keep reading »
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A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon’s Market Power
A large body of scholarship has emerged in recent years attempting to assess if Amazon is a monopoly. Such accounts generally define monopoly in terms of the neoclassical “quantity theory … Keep reading »
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Health and Safety: Amazon Fails to Deliver
“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021) At the end of March 2021, a unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama, … Keep reading »
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A Generational Challenge: Taming Amazon, Renewing Labour
As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced. In the US, the energy was channeled into Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for the … Keep reading »
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Delivery Workers’ Union Takes on Amazon Japan
Delivery workers in Japan are fed up with Amazon Japan’s practices that make accidents and injuries more likely by increasing delivery volume and speed. They are now organising unions to … Keep reading »
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Amazon Workers Form a Union
Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved something the company has been fighting for years to prevent: a union. The breakthrough at Amazon’s JFK8 facility is being hailed as the … Keep reading »
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Amazon Warehouses: Unsafe for Workers and Communities
Letter by Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar to the Department of Labor about unsafe work conditions at Amazon fulfillment centers. Keep reading »
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Amazon Is the New Factory
Warehouse Labour in the Digital Economy – analysis by Alessandro Delfanti @adelfanti Watch video »