Week of action—prime time to unionize Amazon!
By Workers Strike Back. Published July 6, 2023
Amazon sales on Prime Day hit nearly $12 billion in 2022. To keep up with this annual profit bonanza, Amazon workers are forced into mandatory overtime with grueling 11-hour days and 55-hour weeks. This pushes Amazon’s already disproportionately high warehouse injury rate into hyper drive. Yet Amazon workers don’t see a penny of those extra profits.
Amazon workers are the ones who produce the billions of dollars of Prime Day profits! Not Amazon’s wealthy executives and shareholders.
That’s why, this Prime Day, Workers Strike Back is organizing rallies, tables, and speak-outs nationwide to build support for the fight to unionize Amazon during our Prime Time to Unionize Amazon Week of Action July 7th–15th.
The key task of the workers movement, after a decades-long assault on labor, is to organize the unorganized. The bosses won’t make it easy, so it’s essential to overcome vicious union busting from massive corporations like Amazon and Starbucks.
The workers at KCVG have been fighting back against a slew of attacks from management. Amazon executives, while refusing to meet the KCVG workers’ reasonable demand of $30 an hour starting wage, are spending millions on union-busting law firms to intimidate workers. Earlier this year, they fired Edward Clarke, a member of the union Organizing Committee, and removed three other members from their positions as Learning Ambassadors.
We can’t depend on the NLRB and the courts, which are no friends to workers, as we have seen over and over with recent court decisions. And we can’t trust Joe Biden or the strikebreakers in the Democratic Party leadership. We need to get organized ourselves and take a stand against the bosses. Shop floor actions, like coordinated petitions and direct confrontations against management’s union busting in the workplace, need to be paired with community support. When three Learning Ambassadors were removed from their positions at KCVG, Workers Strike Back organized a community call-in campaign in conjunction with workers’ direct action at the Air Hub. In just 48 hours, we mobilized hundreds of calls to the union-busing management at KCVG and raised over $1,500 for the union drive.
We fight union busting with solidarity. KCVG workers need your support to beat back Amazon’s attacks and win a union in northern Kentucky, as a major step towards unionizing Amazon everywhere. Please give whatever you can TODAY – $25, $250, or $1,000 to support the union drive at KCVG.
Amazon workers at KCVG won’t pay dues until they win a union and a raise, so they need our support to help pay for office space, leaflets, yard signs, and more. They are up against Amazon’s massive union-busting machine, and they need resources to win. Donate to Workers Strike Back today, and every penny will go to the Amazon Labor Union campaign at KCVG.
And SIGN UP NOW to participate in our Week of Action events happening in Raleigh, Bay Area, NYC, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Boston, Houston, or with KCVG workers in northern Kentucky!
This Prime Day, stand up to Amazon’s union busting. Donate today to support the KCVG union drive and join us for the Prime Time to Unionize Amazon National Week of Action.
