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High Injury Rates Push Minnesota's Amazon Workers to Organize for Safety

By Isabela Escalona | March 6, 2023

Workers are concerned about soaring rates of injury, high productivity quotas, incoherent policies, and a sudden warehouse closure.

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How Workers Used Amazon's Captive Audience Meetings Against the Company

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House bill targets high injury rates in Amazon’s MN warehouses

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“The Amazon Workers in Bessemer Would Already Have Their Union If We Had the PRO Act”

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Outside Amazon fulfillment center, workers demand tax fairness

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The Teamsters Hint at a Combative National Project to Organize Amazon

By Hamilton Nolan (In These Times) | March 22, 2021

Fearing a threat to more than 100 years of worker gains, “This entire union is focused on dealing with Amazon.”

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Hammer and Hope: Danny Glover on the Amazon union drive in Bessemer, Alabama

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | March 15, 2021

TRNN Editor in Chief Maximillian drove 14 hours from Baltimore to Bessemer to sit down with Glover and talk about why this vote is so significant and how Amazon workers in Bessemer.

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An Alabama Amazon Worker’s Case for Unionization

By Maximillian Alvarez | March 8, 2021

Jennifer Bates, an employee of the Bessemer fulfillment center, explains why the forthcoming vote is so monumental.

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Amazon Offers $2,000 “Resignation Bonuses” to Bust Union Drive in Alabama

By Mike Elk (Payday Report) | February 23, 2021

As the historic union election at Amazon in Alabama heats up, Amazon is pulling all the tricks to stop the union.

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Thursday Night Shakopee Amazon Workers Walked Out

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | October 2, 2020

The walkout comes amid rising concerns that “time off task” violations are used to target and retaliate against workers.

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No picnics, no parades, but Freedom Library will mark Labor Day with virtual event on organizing Amazon

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | September 3, 2020

The East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul will celebrate Labor Day early and online this year, with a virtual discussion about worker organizing at the world’s largest retailer, Amazon.

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Leaked Memo Reveals Amazon Misled the Public and Workers About COVID-19 Spread in Minnesota

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | June 30, 2020

“For months, Amazon has been sitting on information that could have helped prevent workers in my facility from getting sick and spreading the virus to our families.”

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‘I Feel Like I Almost Died’

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | June 25, 2020

On a Wednesday afternoon Zoom press conference, Hibaq Mohamed asserted that it’s likely the number is higher saying, “you can not trust the number of confirmed cases.”

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50+ Amazon Workers Walk Out in Shakopee

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | April 26, 2020

Following news of another firing and the revelation of two positive cases of COVID-19, more than 50 Shakopee Amazon fulfillment workers walked off the job just after midnight Sunday morning.

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Sacramento Amazon Warehouse Workers Deliver Christmas Walkout

By Joe DeManuelle-Hall (Labor Notes) | January 6, 2020

Workers at Amazon’s DSM1 warehouse in Sacramento celebrated Christmas in their own fashion—by walking out. It was the latest move in their campaign for paid time off.

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