{"id":16527,"date":"2024-11-12T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T12:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/union-review-fighting-for-your-rights-under-the-amazon-corporate-jackboot\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T12:37:27","slug":"union-review-fighting-for-your-rights-under-the-amazon-corporate-jackboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/union-review-fighting-for-your-rights-under-the-amazon-corporate-jackboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Union review \u2013 fighting for your rights under the Amazon corporate jackboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

This documentary follows the formation of the Amazon Labor Union, showing how difficult it is for workers working for a company determined to efface their rights<\/p>\n

The historic 2022 victory in getting union recognition for Amazon workers<\/a> in a huge warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and the creation of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), is the subject of this candid and valuable film. It\u2019s another reminder that the kind of rights that the ALU secured \u2013 however reasonable and modest \u2013 are still precarious, have never been freely given and need to be fought for. The corporation in question is uniquely powerful, well aware that it operates in a world where people will cancel their Washington Post subscription but not their Amazon Prime membership.<\/p>\n

This documentary\u2019s hero is Christian Smalls, who deserves his own chapter in the history of the American labour movement, alongside Sylvia Woods and Cesar Chavez. Smalls was laid off from the Amazon fulfilment centre for objecting to poor safety protocols; he set about creating a union, with a lonely, cold vigil outside the warehouse, handing out leaflets, accepting support from well-wishers, doing media interviews. The pressure grew, and the dream of creating a union was theoretically possible because of the law that if 30% of the workforce require it, a vote on unionisation has to be taken. Amazon\u2019s workforce turnover means employees come and go and it is very difficult to get up to this point. But it was achieved, and a \u201cyes\u201d majority secured \u2013 after which Amazon started a huge legal campaign to have that vote annulled.<\/p>\n

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\nThis documentary follows the formation of the Amazon Labor Union, showing how difficult it is for workers working for a company determined to efface their rights
\nThe historic 2022 victory in getting union recognition for Amazon workers in a huge warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and the creation of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), is the subject of this candid and valuable film. It\u2019s another reminder that the kind of rights that the ALU secured \u2013 however reasonable and modest \u2013 are still precarious, have never been freely given and need to be fought for. The corporation in question is uniquely powerful, well aware that it operates in a world where people will cancel their Washington Post subscription but not their Amazon Prime membership.
\nThis documentary\u2019s hero is Christian Smalls, who deserves his own chapter in the history of the American labour movement, alongside Sylvia Woods and Cesar Chavez. Smalls was laid off from the Amazon fulfilment centre for objecting to poor safety protocols; he set about creating a union, with a lonely, cold vigil outside the warehouse, handing out leaflets, accepting support from well-wishers, doing media interviews. The pressure grew, and the dream of creating a union was theoretically possible because of the law that if 30% of the workforce require it, a vote on unionisation has to be taken. Amazon\u2019s workforce turnover means employees come and go and it is very difficult to get up to this point. But it was achieved, and a \u201cyes\u201d majority secured \u2013 after which Amazon started a huge legal campaign to have that vote annulled. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This documentary follows the formation of the Amazon Labor Union, showing how difficult it is for workers working for a company determined to efface their rights The historic 2022 victory in getting union recognition for Amazon workers in a huge warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and the creation of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), …<\/p>\n

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