Amazon labor union
Amazon and Starbucks Workers’ Rally Outside Howard Schultz’s House Interrupted by Amazon Delivery
“Make sure you sign a union card on the way out,” ALU president Chris Smalls said.
Internal Documents Show Amazon’s Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts
The documents provide new clarity about a much-talked-about but until now opaque process Amazon uses to punish associates it believes are wasting time.
Amazon Makes Union Organizer Pick Up Cigarette Butts Alone in Parking Lot
Another union organizer at the same warehouse in upstate New York was fired for not using a step stool to move totes full of merchandise.
Amazon Just Fired 2 Union Organizers Who Helped Win Amazon’s First Union
“I believe it was retaliatory. Amazon knows that I’m making national headlines."
Amazon Labor Union Loses Vote Next Door to Their First Victory
Amazon Labor Union's loss at LDJ5 in Staten Island shows that despite its stunning upset in April, unionization efforts at Amazon still face an uphill battle.
The Largest Subreddit for Amazon Workers Has Banned the Word ‘Union’
Moderators of the popular online forum with 43,500 members decided to censor union-related posts “due to an influx of spam and outright malicious posts.”
Amazon Labor Union Is Inspiring Amazon Workers Around the Country to Unionize
Organized groups of Amazon warehouse workers have formed or expanded across the country since ALU's victory.
Amazon Cracks Down on Organizing After Historic Union Win
The fiercely anti-union company has doubled down on its anti-union efforts at a Staten Island warehouse, LDJ5, that is scheduled to begin a union election on April 25.
Working at an Amazon Warehouse Got Even More Dangerous in 2021
Nearly half of all warehouse worker injuries occurred in an Amazon warehouse, according to a new report.
The Amazon Labor Union Took On America’s Most Powerful Company—and Won
In 2020 Chris Smalls was fired for organizing a walkout in protest of Amazon’s COVID safety procedures. Now he’s the president of the first Amazon union in the country.
Amazon Warehouse Workers Win Historic Union Election
The Amazon Labor Union won the vote in the face of relentless union busting from one of the most powerful companies in the world.
'I’m Getting Evicted': Amazon Workers Explain Why They’re Voting to Unionize
Motherboard spoke to Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island about how they voted in the ongoing election.