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Amazon Warehouse Workers in New York City Join Protest
The workers’ union hopes that adding employees at the Staten Island warehouse to a protest started by delivery drivers will increase pressure on Amazon.
A group of around 100 people had gathered to protest outside the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island on Saturday morning.Credit...Dakota Santiago for The New York Times
FULL story: http://archive.today/95y8a
By Santul Nerkar and Noam Scheiber
Dec. 21, 2024
Signaling an escalation in a labor campaign that began at seven Amazon delivery hubs on Thursday, workers at the company’s largest Staten Island warehouse began a protest there at midnight on Saturday.
By late morning, a group of around 100 people — a small percentage of the more than 5,000 workers at that warehouse — had gathered outside. Union organizers had set up tents, food stations and a heater next to a bus station across the street from the warehouse. Many of the workers said they had been scheduled to work that day and did not clock in, while others said they had not been scheduled to work.
They were joined by New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, who spoke briefly and told the workers that “the law is on your side.”
“I want all of you to know that Amazon can’t just share the benefits of your hard work at the top,” Ms. James said. “They need to make sure that you are being paid.”
ORIGINAL link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/amazon-warehouse-staten-island-strike.html