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Amazon workers are on strike! It’s no shock that employees are pushing back against the invasive, abusive, and grueling practices of one of the world’s largest corporations. What is surprising, though, is that they managed to form a union at all. Stephen Maing and Brett Story’s astonishing new documentary Union tells the inspiring story of how workers fought against all odds to claim victory over the corporate giant. This week, Adam talks with Stephen and Brett about the uphill battles these workers faced against Amazon—and the challenges they now face trying to find a distributor in Hollywood brave enough to release the film.

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Quebec: Labour Minister pushes for power to force an end to strikes. Union says "it shows deep disdain for those who fight every day for fair working conditions." (halifax.citynews.ca)

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Amazon Unleashed Flood of Water on Striking Workers, Say Teamsters (inthesetimes.com)

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"The workers are the ones who make billionaires, billionaires." Amazon acts "like a Dracula, sucking the blood of people." (www.leftvoice.org)

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Amazon Warehouse Workers in New York City Join Protest (www.nytimes.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23937251

By Santul Nerkar and Noam Scheiber
Dec. 21, 2024

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Ways to help Amazon Labor Union Strike (www.amazonlaborunion.org)

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I'm not affiliated with any of the parties involved. Just a big fan of unions, and wanted to raise awareness. Hopefully this isn't against community rules.

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Starbucks strike in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle expanding to Columbus, Denver, and Pittsburgh (globalnews.ca)

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Belgrade: Agricultural workers (who are also on strike) came on tractors to serve striking students. The urban-rural divide that's been politically exploited since the 70s is being broken (social.coop)

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NYPD Arrests Workers During Historic Amazon Strike (inthesetimes.com)

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From the article: In December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

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Amazon: OSHA penalties for instances that do get reported capped at $16,000 for serious violations. For a company making $70,000 in profits per minute, that’s just the cost of doing business. (www.labornotes.org)

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NYT tech workers donate remainder of strike fund to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strikers in solidarity (www.unionprogress.com)

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