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Amazon strike 20199/2/2023 “I’ve noticed that the company started to, just recently, how do I say, keep everyone as happy as they can. I’m not going to go back to school.”Īnother worker commented on the recently installed accommodations such as fans, water coolers and shaded rest areas at the facility. I don’t agree with a lot of Amazon’s ways, so that’s why I’m not promoted. That’s not right, after being here five years.” With their shift differential, it puts them at $19.50 an hour. They gave $1 to the new hires, who start at $18. A similar report showed that Amazon Air freight pilots, who are members of the Teamsters, make 33 percent less than their counterparts who fly for FedEx or UPS.Īnother worker with five years pointed to the low pay for higher-seniority workers, “Everybody got a $1 raise. All of them.”Īccording to a June 2019 report on Freight Waves, Amazon truck drivers at the time received pay at 18.4 percent less than rates posted for DAT Solutions, a freight exchange service provider. You have about six departments, and they’re all underpaid. And they only got a $1-an-hour raise too. “People inside the warehouse are underpaid. “Everyone is underpaid,” the employee stated. On the contrary, a reporting team from the World Socialist WebSite which visited the warehouse last week encountered widespread opposition.Īn Amazon truck driver spoke on the issue of pay, stating that truck drivers for Amazon get paid $17 an hour, compared to the standard $32 an hour for truck drivers in other industries. The setback for ALU at ONT8 does not reflect satisfaction by Amazon workers with their working conditions. They did this by convincing workers that ALU was a more democratic, rank-and-file alternative to the established trade unions, dominated by unaccountable bureaucracies joined at the hip with management.īut as money from New York City real estate and support from President Biden and other leading Democrats pour in, support and enthusiasm for ALU among workers is beginning to dry up, even as Amazon workers around the country and the world are rising up against low pay and working conditions. The ALU was able to secure victory at JFK8, even as a far better-financed and publicized campaign by the Retail, Warehouse and Department Store Union at an Alabama facility floundered. The fortunes of ALU’s organizing efforts have stalled at precisely the point that the ALU has ingratiated itself with the Democrats and the AFL-CIO bureaucracy. The ALU hardly raised the issue of the JFK8 fire in its Albany campaign, however. This was the third fire to have broken out at an Amazon warehouse in New York State recently, including one at JFK8, where dozens of workers and several ALU reps were suspended for demanding that workers be sent home. This was all the more remarkable given the fact that a fire had broken out at the warehouse only a few days before the vote. The withdrawal of its petition at ONT8 followed by only three days the rejection of the ALU by a wide margin in a union election in the ALB1 warehouse in Albany, New York. This was the latest setback for the ALU, which, after winning the first-ever union election at a US Amazon facility at the JFK8 warehouse at the start of the year, has largely stalled in its subsequent unionizing efforts. However, ALU was compelled to withdraw its petition to hold a unionization vote at the facility, although it reportedly intends to resubmit. Recently, Amazon’s ONT8 fulfillment center in Moreno Valley, California, located in the Inland Empire area, has received national attention because of a unionization drive there by the fledgling Amazon Labor Union (ALU). In this Thursday Apfile photo, The Amazon logo is seen in Douai, northern France.
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