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Fuck Yeah: Amazon Warehouse Workers in Staten Island Go Public With Unionizing Push https://ift.tt/2SLNNil Employees at a newly-opened Amazon warehouse in Staten Island went public with a campaign to unionize last night, saying that the company should improve working conditions before focusing on its new HQ2 expansion across the city in Queens, according to Bloomberg News. In the face of the companyâs hyper-aggressive, global anti-union campaign, the new push is a pretty huge development for workers in other parts of the countryâand other Amazon-owned companies like Whole Foods. The Staten Island employeesâ complaints are familiarâmainly, that Amazon treats them like shit for not enough money. According to Bloomberg News, which broke the story Tuesday night (emphasis mine):
The workers want to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, which also backed an organizing push at Whole Foods that went public in September. Per Bloomberg, RWDSU wants to use the massive incentives New York offered Amazon to bring its second corporate headquarters to Long Island City in Queens to put pressure on the company:
Applebaum, who my colleague Hamilton Nolan interviewed last year, has been running the RWDSU for the better part of two decades, and has won representation for employees in multiple major box store and retail chains like Macyâs and Duane Reade, as well as for poultry and factory workers across the country. He declined to tell Bloomberg the specifics of where the union campaign goes from here, other than urging the company to âsit down with workers and their representativesâ to discuss their concerns, but the aforementioned press conference at City Hall on Wednesday could provide more information. The NYC City Council is meeting on Wednesday for the first of several public hearings to discuss Amazonâs HQ2 expansion. CBS reported this morning that some city officials are concerned the deal to bring Amazon to NYC was made behind closed doors and potentially by skirting the City Councilâs land review process. The fight to unionize Amazon as a whole will be a herculean undertaking. But with hundreds of thousands of people reliant on the company for survival and subject to the whims of one man, this is a vital first step to making it happen as soon as possible. Digital Trends via Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com December 12, 2018 at 09:27AM
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