Amazon: Worldwide Strike, AL Workers Get New Shot At Union, NLRB Ruling On Vote: In Depth, DN! News

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- Amazon Workers in Ala. Get New Shot at Union After NLRB Rules Company Broke the Law in 1st Vote. Dec. 1, 2021. Well done report, I learned a lot more about Amazon's global operations and worker issues.

- Democracy Now! Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama may soon get another chance to decide whether to unionize. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Amazon violated U.S. labor law while waging an aggressive anti-unionization campaign against warehouse workers earlier this year in Bessemer, Alabama.

- This comes as Amazon workers worldwide from Bangladesh to Germany campaigned on Black Friday for fairer working conditions under the banner, “Make Amazon Pay.” “If Amazon is trying to eat the world, it’s also bringing many disparate sets of workers and activists and communities together to fight against them,” says Alex Press, staff writer at Jacobin.
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- Make Amazon Pay' demonstration held on Black Friday in London, Nov 26, 2021. A demonstration under the slogan "Make Amazon Pay" is held in London on Black Friday to protest the online retail giant's "exploitation of workers, communities, and our planet".
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- Nov. 2021. 'Black Friday Strikes & Protests Target Amazon in 20 Countries,' By Alex N. Press. On Black Friday, workers around the world are targeting Amazon under the banner of Make Amazon Pay. The actions span the supply chain and traverse borders — just like Amazon itself.

This Black Friday, a coalition of unions, nongovernmental organizations, and grassroots groups joined under the name of Make Amazon Pay is staging a day of strikes and protests targeting Amazon across twenty countries, demanding the company pay a living wage, taxes, and compensation for its environmental impact.

The action takes place at the level of Amazon’s operations: the planet.

While the tech and logistics company is based in the United States, it operates globally, employing some 1.3 million people worldwide, a number that doesn’t include its many workers who are employed by subcontractors. So, too, must resistance to Amazon traverse borders.

The Make Amazon Pay coalition launched last year with a Black Friday day of action, but this year, the coalition’s reach will be broader, with protests and strikes planned in twenty countries. The coalition says that the day of action will range from “oil refineries, to factories, to warehouses, to data centres, to corporate offices,” highlighting Amazon’s far-reaching, less-visible arms...
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/11/amazon-black-friday-strikes-protests-international-bangladesh-italy-africa
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