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Thursday, 15 Apr 2021 07:27 PM MYT People protest in support of the unionising efforts of the Alabama Amazon workers, in Los Angeles March 22, 2021. — Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. NEW YORK, April 15 — Regina McDowell was not surprised that workers overwhelmingly rejected a union at an Amazon.com Inc warehouse in Alabama last week. She spent 42 years working in a unionised electrical equipment factory in Indiana and was active in organising drives — including traveling to the South to track down workers at their homes to m...

‘Make this a new period of working class challenge’ The following edited remarks were made at an April 9 webinar, “The Struggle Continues: Next Steps for BAmazon Union and Beyond — Organizers’ Meeting.” The Support Amazon Workers solidarity campaign (supportamazonworkers.org) organized the session. Saladin Muhammad is a founding member of the Southern Workers Assembly (southernworker.org) and Black Workers For Justice, based in North Carolina.   Saladin Muhammad There’s disappointment at the vote against a union at Amazon in Alabama. But recognizing the absence of a real stro...

Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images Amazon has come under fire for some workplace practices in the past and amid a recent union effort. We've rounded up all the tactics the company uses to track employees and contractors. One of the factors driving pro-union sentiment, workers say, is a feeling of being watched by Amazon. For drivers, there's the controversial Netradyne Driveri system Drivers for Amazon, many of whom are third-party contractors driving Amazon vans, learned earlier this year that their vans would start to feature a four-part camera with b...

Amazon’s Ugly Alabama Union Fight Could Be The Struggle That Alters The Great Disruptor Forever AFP via Getty Images To understand what is at stake with Amazon’s first significant union challenge unfolding this week in Bessemer, Alabama, look no further than Jennifer Bates. The 48-year-old warehouse employee started working at the retail giant’s Bessemer fulfillment center last May and after just three days found the job was bringing her physical pain. She spent most of the ten-hour days on her feet scanning items and getting packages ready for shipment, with much of her limite...

Dr. Kelley is the author of “ Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression,” and Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at U.C.L.A. He will join us to discuss the history and significance of the BAmazon Union struggle and its connections to the period analyzed in his book. Alabama — particularly the Birmingham-Bessemer area — has a centuries-old tradition of Black-led organizing against enslavement, racist land seizures, Jim Crow racism, prison-convict labor, segregation laws and Ku Klux Klan violence. Within living memory of the Amazon workers and their families...