Chicago Amazon News Today

A Chicago Amazon delivery driver named Eligha Bryant helped a teenager with his tie before had to go to the homecoming dance at his high school. The story speaks the power of kindness and doing good deeds.

Serious injury rates at most Chicago-area Amazon warehouses are double the statewide average, data shows. Worker advocates want to make sure jobs at the West Side center don't carry the same risks of injury.

A Chicago Amazon warehouse is just over two weeks away from opening in West Humbold Park and neighborhood residents want local hiring prioritized.

Last year there were 87 strikes by non-union workers, according to Cornell’s Labor Action Tracker, accounting for one-third of all work stoppages in the U.S. Even without a union, you have the legal right to organize strikes, job actions, and various protests—and your employer is banned from retaliating against you. Despite the law, though, many employers will fire

Last year there were 87 strikes by non-union workers, according to Cornell’s Labor Action Tracker, accounting for one-third of all work stoppages in the U.S. Even without a union, you have the legal right to organize strikes, job actions, and various protests—and your employer is banned from retaliating against you. Despite the law, though, many employers will fire

In Chicago and across the U.S., frontline workers in industries that are typically thought of as difficult to unionize are organizing in greater numbers.

CHICAGO—Amazon’s labor law-breaking against its workers in six cases involving two Chicago-area warehouses, in Cicero and Gage Park, forced the exploitative monster firm to settle a National Labor Relations Board case against it.

CHICAGO—Amazon’s labor law-breaking against its workers in six cases involving two Chicago-area warehouses, in Cicero and Gage Park, forced the exploitative monster firm to settle a National Labor Relations Board case against it.

A Dedicated Grassroots Troublemaker Christian Krähling, Amazon worker and activist, wrote this song for the Chicago Amazon workers at DCH1 warehouse. They won a fight for equal Paid Time Off (PTO) in March 2020, during a pandemic. Christian passed away on December 10, 2020. Amazon Workers International, an international network of militant Amazon workers, wrote this beautiful obituary, pledging to continue the common project: On 10th December our comrade and irreplaceable friend, Christian K...