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Current and former Black Amazon employees claim racial discrimination One lawsuit alleges Amazon has “a pattern of hiring Black employees at lower levels than comparable white employees.” Author: Christin Ayers Updated: 10:16 PM PDT April 5, 2021 SEATTLE — Chanin Kelly-Rae said the lack of ethnic diversity in upper-level management at Amazon was one of the first things that struck her when she walked onto the company’s Seattle campus for the first time.  “The only Black people that I saw every day were either opening doors or cleaning floors,” said...

Black Amazon manager sues tech giant over alleged discrimination, sexual harassment and assault Charlotte Newman, who remains at the company and is based in Washington D.C., claims Amazon has a history of 'down-leveling' Black employees. Author: Matthew Torres Updated: 4:54 PM EDT April 5, 2021 WASHINGTON — Charlotte Newman still holds back tears when she recounts a work dinner that “spiraled” in January 2018. The former economic policy advisor to Sen. Cory Booker had already been employed at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) department for a year, when she a...

Democratic members of Congress and national union leaders sought to rustle up support for unionizing a massive Amazon facility in Alabama.

The Bessemer front in the international class struggle By Christian Noakes posted on March 2, 2021 Bessemer, Ala., is now the site of a historic labor struggle between the majority-Black Amazon warehouse workers there and the $1.7 trillion international capitalist monopoly corporation. About 80% of the warehouse workers are African American, and almost half are women.  Rally for Amazon workers, Bessemer, Ala., Feb. 6. In March 2020, Amazon opened up the BHM1 fulfillment center in this predominantly Black working-class city that sits on the west edge of Birmingham, Ala. Within two months, t...

Between Feb 8, and March 29, approximately 6,000 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union. The harsh working conditions at Amazon warehouses, along with Amazon’s refusal to adopt measures that protect workers from COVID 19, have pushed Amazon and Whole Foods workers every- where to step up organizing and fighting back. These predominantly Black Amazon workers, who have in recent months formed the BAmazon Workers Union, are on the cusp of launching a history-changing worke...