Undeterred, Smalls wants all American workers to have access to the organizing strategies that resulted in his union’s historic win. The improbable April 1 victory of Amazon workers in Staten Island, who fought for over two years to establish the very first union at the retail behemoth, is inspiring other Amazon employees around the country and highlighting a new path forward for the labor movement. It may also reignite labor organizing at Walmart, where workers seeking to form unions have been thwarted for decades. More than two years after Amazon employee Christian Smalls led a small walkout at JFK8, the company’s sprawling […]
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Part 2: Acting Like A Union—With Or Without One? Alex: Can you talk about the responses from Amazon and Walmart—not just how they responded to you on the issues, but whether they responded with efforts to blunt the organizing? Howard: A lot of people working today don’t have an experience of being in a union, and even if they do, they don’t necessarily have an experience of taking collective action and changing their circumstances. And so I think that the biggest effect for Amazon workers of the work that we are doing is beginning to write new stories that we can tell each […]
Above Photo: Amazonians United cookout near a worksite to bring petition signatories together to build solidarity going into peak season. They were chanting “$2” because one of their demands was to keep the $2 pandemic hazard pay. Photo courtesy of Amazonians United. “Amazon is the epoch-defining corporation of the moment in a way that Walmart was two decades ago,” said Howard W, an Amazon warehouse worker and organizer with Amazonians United, a grassroots movement of Amazon workers building shop-floor power. What can organizers at Amazon learn from the Walmart campaigns in the 2000s? And what can these two efforts teach us […]
Above Photo: A new report details the relationship between four major retailers that ship goods to the U.S. and fossil-fueled carrier companies. Ship It Zero. As a congestion crisis continues to stall polluting container ships in ports around the world, there is a growing awareness of the role that international shipping plays in both the climate crisis and the public-health impacts of air pollution. Released on Cyber Monday, a new report from Ship It Zero coalition members Stand.earth and Pacific Environment details the relationship between four major retailers that ship goods to the U.S. — Walmart, Amazon, Target and IKEA — and the fossil-fueled carrier companies that make that shipping possible. “Major […]
In effort by Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, to reorganise its international businesses and hedge its bets on the online retail market, the US company has been in discussion with potential buyers to shift the enterprise to new hands. Two billionaire brothers from Blackburn will take majority of shares in Asda from Walmart in a £6.8 billion agreement announced on Friday, in a move that will bring the supermarket back under UK ownership for the first time in 20 years. The deal with the US-company concluded that Mohsin Issa, 49, and his brother 48-year old will take over the retail chain […]
Here is our analysis of what is an excellent video, for which we thank the San Leandro Police Department. The officer, failing to wait for backup, choose to “cowboy” the event. This is a piss poor cop but he is miles above police in the other shootings we have seen in recent years. The charges here are possibly a bit heavy depending on California’s sentencing on Murder 3. It is clear and should be to anyone seeing this that Taylor suffered from a psychiatric disorder. I also note that the police, after the shooting, made no attempt to render aid but […]
A man walks past a Walmart store in Washington, D.C. on July 15. Walmart said it was “confident” that its joint deal with Microsoft would satisfy both TikTok users and U.S. government regulators. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A man walks past a Walmart store in Washington, D.C. on July 15. Walmart said it was “confident” that its joint deal with Microsoft would satisfy both TikTok users and U.S. government regulators. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Walmart has teamed up with Microsoft in a bid to buy TikTok in one of the […]
A crazy mask Karen went berserk in a Post Falls, Idaho Walmart over the weekend when she spotted customers without their faces covered. The enraged, overweight woman began screaming at a group of teenagers: “You guys are abusing your freedom! Stop it!” the woman screamed as she punched the teen boy who was recording her with his cell phone. “You think this is cute not wearing a mask,” the obese man said. “Get a damn mask and put it on your face.” The teen boys showed incredible restraint and remained polite during the confrontation and assault. TRENDING: “Why Are You Going […]
Mourners hold 23 crosses Monday in front of a Walmart honoring those killed in the 2019 attack in El Paso, Texas. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Mourners hold 23 crosses Monday in front of a Walmart honoring those killed in the 2019 attack in El Paso, Texas. Mario Tama/Getty Images Adria Gonzalez still remembers the blood, the screaming, the bodies. On August 3, 2019, she was shopping with her mother at a Walmart Supercenter in El Paso, Texas, when a gunman opened fire with an AK-47, killing 23 people and leaving more than two dozen others […]
Blue chip clients cut ties last month with the lobbying firm run by Trump confidant Matt Schlapp over his caustic comments about Black Lives Matter protests. But Schlapp’s firm also picked up a new client: the President of the United States. Trump’s reelection campaign paid Cove Strategies, Schlapp’s lobbying and public affairs shop, $43,567 for communications consulting in June, according to a Federal Election Commission filing on Monday. It was the first time the Trump campaign had paid Cove Strategies, and the first payment the firm has received from any federal political committee since 2012, when it got less than $300 […]
Even in a time of record unemployment, some of Dan’s colleagues at an Indiana Walmart have walked off the job. They aren’t quitting over fears of catching COVID-19, he explained. They’re quitting because of customers who become abusive when asked to wear face masks. “A lot of our people have been verbally harassed to the point of breaking down and just quitting,” Dan, who like other workers interviewed in this story used a pseudonym to avoid retaliation from his employer, told The Daily Beast. If anything, jobs like Dan’s are about to get even more complicated. On Monday, Walmart will begin […]
At least two people are dead after a gunman attacked a Walmart distribution center in the Northern California town of Red Bluff on Saturday, hospital officials said. Local media confirmed the deaths with the St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, where four other victims of the rampage were said to be in fair condition. Police have yet to confirm details about the chaotic assault, which unfolded at about 3:30 p.m. when the shooter reportedly rammed his vehicle into the building, causing a fire and injuring people inside before opening fire. Witnesses cited by local media said he appeared to be using an assault […]
Authorities have neutralized an armed suspect, who crashed his vehicle into a Walmart distribution center near Red Bluff, California and opened fire at the employees, killing and injuring multiple people. The incident happened around 3:30pm, during a shift change, when a vehicle crashed into the ficility. The gunman, allegedly armed with an ‘AR-type’ semi-automatic weapon fired several dozen rounds as panicked employees ran for their lives, according to witnesses. “It went on and on — I don’t even know how many times he fired,” Scott Thammakhanty, an employee at the facility, told AP. The attacker was confronted and ‘shot in the chest’ […]
According to local media, citing eyewitnesses, the incident took place at about 3.30 pm local time (22:30 GMT) during the shift change. At least two people have been shot dead and four more have been injured at a Walmart Distribution Centre in Red Bluff, California, The New York Times reported on Saturday citing a hospital official. Those injured were in fair condition, Allison Hendrickson, a spokesperson for St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff said. According to the Times, eyewitnesses heard about 50 gunshots. It is also reported that a car drove into the door of the distribution centre. Local Red Bluff Daily News […]
The U.S. Prosecutor’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) has always been known for their special investigative skills of uncovering major drug lords. In fact –they have been one of the leading U.S. Attorney’s office in the nation to carry out President Trump’s “Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse” focusing their resources on the illegal prescribing and dispensing Opioid drugs by pharmacies and doctors. Their strategies focused on cracking down on the domestic and international drug supply chains. In 2018, Joe Brown, the U.S. attorney for EDTX, set an example of outstanding investigative work when they extradited defendants out of […]
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help in identifying the over 200 looters who ransacked a local Walmart last week. The looters got off with over $100,000 worth of merchandise. Advertisement – story continues below The looters hit the store like it was a Black Friday sale. The sign in the front of the store says “please keep 6 feet apart.” Via News Alert: TRENDING: Biden Narrows VP Pick Down to Six Women — But Look Who’s NOT on the List! Police are on the lookout for 200 looters who ransacked a Walmart store in Tampa, Florida.. https://t.co/836xpYS8aQ pic.twitter.com/poNCrf9783 […]
After the recent riots which saw multiple large stores looted, some retailers are having second thoughts about remaining in certain cities. In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been talking to these retailers and asking them not to leave the city. Not only do these companies make it possible for residents to get the things they need, they pay tons of taxes which the city relies on. WBBM News reports: TRENDING: Wow! Minneapolis City Council President Says Calling the Police on Burglars “Comes from a Place of Privilege” (VIDEO) Mayor Lightfoot Pleads With Walmart, Other Retailers To Not Abandon Chicago Mayor Lightfoot […]
Perhaps a few of you have seen the ad going around paid for by something called The Lincoln Project. The 60 second spot criticizes Trump for his administration’s response to the coronavirus, seemingly blaming Trump for the virus and the knee jerk reactions of governors across the country who have ordered shutdowns of their state’s businesses, wreaking havoc on the nation’s economy. The ad offers no constructive solution to the two primary concurrent problems. If Trump doesn’t shut down the economy, they blame him for virus deaths. If he shuts down the economy, they blame him for damage caused. Except […]
Cynthia Murray’s hours at Walmart had already been cut and she was worried about her health in the pandemic. After a customer shouted at her, she decided to go on unpaid leave. Chuck Kennedy/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chuck Kennedy/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Cynthia Murray’s hours at Walmart had already been cut and she was worried about her health in the pandemic. After a customer shouted at her, she decided to go on unpaid leave. Chuck Kennedy/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Cynthia Murray has worked at a Walmart store in Maryland for nearly […]