Amazon workers picket warehouses in UK over long hours, low wages

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023

COVENTRY, England — Hundreds of workers picketed outside Amazon’s large BHX4 warehouse here Aug. 4. Dozens more picketed at a smaller facility in nearby Rugeley. Altogether over 1,000 workers took two days of strike action, marking the first anniversary of…


Workers rally for a union at Amazon Air Hub in Kentucky

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

FLORENCE, Ky. — “Who has the power? We have the power! What kind of power? Union power!” was one of the main chants by some 65 union supporters rallying March 18 outside the large and growing Amazon Air Hub at…


San Bernardino Amazon workers fight for a raise

Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. —“We want safety, no retaliation,” several hundred community members and unionists chanted, joining over 100 workers from Amazon’s largest air freight facility on the West Coast, called KSBD Oct. 14. They carried signs saying, “Prime shoppers beware,…




Amazon workers in Alabama rally for pro-union vote

Vol. 86/No. 11 - March 21, 2022

BESSEMER, Ala. — “It’s an atrocity that we, the laborers, generate 99% of the income, yet we get less than 1% of the cut,” Amazon worker Dale Wyatt told 150 unionists and others here Feb. 26. They had turned out…


New union votes set at Amazon Alabama, New York warehouses

Vol. 86/No. 6 - February 14, 2022

The National Labor Relations Board has set a second union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, to begin Feb. 4, ruling the notoriously anti-union company, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, intimidated workers and corrupted the earlier vote. The…


Walmart workers back locked-out Marathon oil workers

Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Workers at the Walmart store where I work have organized to win support for locked-out oil refinery workers half way across the country. Members of Teamsters Local 120 at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in St. Paul…


What are the lessons from the fight for a union at Amazon?

Vol. 85/No. 20 - May 24, 2021
Rally in Philadelphia Feb. 20 backs Amazon workers’ fight to win a union in Bessemer, Alabama. Key is to rely on the strength of the workers themselves, backed by working-class solidarity.

On April 9 the National Labor Relations Board released the results of the union vote at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, where a union drive had been underway since last year. Of the 5,876 workers eligible to vote, 738…


Count begins in vote for a union at Amazon in Alabama

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

ATLANTA — “I feel like everybody is watching us and we’re really making a difference and making a change when it comes to everybody sticking together and standing together,” Darryl Richardson, an outspoken supporter of the fight to win union…