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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.
Last week’s article in the WSWS about the death of 20 year-old Caes David Gruesbeck at an Amazon warehouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana has generated considerable discussion among Amazon workers, who have drawn comparisons to conditions in their own facilities.
The electric delivery vans will launch in more than a dozen cities including Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix and St. Louis, with “thousands” of the vehicles rolling out
"We quickly bounced back" and kept gathering signatures, organizer Christian Smalls said after getting green light from NLRB.
Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board agreed on a settlement by which Amazon will no longer implement policies that restrict employee access to non-work areas, such as breakrooms, during non-work time and require them to leave its properties 15 minutes after the end of their shifts. Employees argue the policies have hampered labor organizing efforts.