Amazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing To Become Direct Employees
Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon. But that could change in New York…
Amazon Is Deploying AI to Spy on Its Workers and Bust Unions Before They Form
By Jonathan Rosenblum This article was originally published by Truthout Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move. The 18th-century notion…
Why Walmart Wants to See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail
By Derek Seidman for Truthout Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee…
Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target ‘Techno-Authoritarian’ Assault on Workers
By Jake Johnson Common Dreams Amazon workers and their allies worldwide took to the streets on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the e-commerce behemoth’s…
Teamsters Rally in NYC After Amazon’s ‘Illegal’ Firing of 150 Unionized Drivers
"Amazon would be nothing without its workers," said one worker. "We're the ones who power their profits. We're the ones who put our health and safety on the line every…
Amazon Workers Launch Largest Strike Yet: ‘It Doesn’t Feel Like a Job That Should Be Legal’
The Teamsters set Amazon an ultimatum: recognize the unions and agree to bargaining by December 15, or face strikes. Amazon hasn’t moved.