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Some warehouse workers of Amazon, the largest American e-commerce retailer with 750,000 employees, have organized for workplace improvements in light of the company's scrutinized labor practices and stance against unions. Worker actions have included work stoppages and have won concessions including increased pay, safety precautions, and time off.
The Amazon Labor Union was founded on April 20, 2021, by a labor-activist group founded by Chris Smalls called The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW). Smalls, along with Derrick Palmer, had organized a walkout at the JFK8 facility to protest Amazon's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had led to the firing of Smalls.
Amazon saw large growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring more than 100,000 staff in the United States and Canada. [35] Some Amazon workers in the US, France, and Italy protested the company's decision to "run normal shifts" due to COVID-19's ease of spread in warehouses.
July 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM. Workers at Amazon's only unionized warehouse in the U.S. elected new union leaders, according to a vote count completed Tuesday, marking the first major change for the ...
Amazon workers at the JFK8 Fulfillment Center on Staten Island voted on April 1 to form the first Amazon Union in U.S. history, according to the Amazon Labor Union.
Recorded April 2022. Christian Smalls (born July 4, 1988) is an American labor organizer known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization in Staten Island, a borough in New York City. He is the president and founder of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) since 2021. Smalls grew up in New Jersey and pursued a career as a rapper, touring briefly ...
Jane F. McAlevey (October 12, 1964 – July 7, 2024) was an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. [ 1][ 2][ 3] She was a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley 's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation . McAlevey contended that only workers have the power ...
Amazon Mechanical Turk ( MTurk) is a crowdsourcing website with which businesses can hire remotely located "crowdworkers" to perform discrete on-demand tasks that computers are currently unable to do as economically. It is operated under Amazon Web Services, and is owned by Amazon. [ 1] Employers, known as requesters, post jobs known as Human ...