Above photo: Patrick Pleul/Picture Alliance via Getty Images. Capping Off a Year of Labor Action at Amazon. For the first time, Amazon is experiencing a multi-site U.S. work stoppage. It comes at the end of a year marked by union organizing and labor militancy at the retail giant. On Wednesday morning, several dozen Amazon workers at two separate Chicago-area delivery stations staged a walkout to demand raises and safer working conditions, making it the first time the tech giant has seen a multi-site work stoppage in the United States. Coming just three days before Christmas to ensure maximum impact, the action caps a year of intense organizing […]
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Above Photo: Workers remove debris from an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Edwardsville, Illinois, on December 11, 2021, after it was hit by a tornado. The event caused at least six deaths at the facility that suffered “catastrophic damage,” while the western Kentucky town of Mayfield was “ground zero” of the storm—a scene of “massive devastation,” one official said. (Photo: Tim Vizer/AFP via Getty Images) ‘Inexcusable’. The death of six people and the injury of one after an Amazon warehouse’s partial collapse is calling Amazon’s worker safety into question. Amazon was accused Saturday of putting corporate profits above worker safety following the tornado-caused […]
Above Photo: An Amazon fulfillment center where organizers are planning to file for a union election next week after gathering more than 1,700 employee signatures in the borough of Staten Island in New York, Oct. 21, 2021. Justin Lane/EPA via Shutterstock. The independent group is being led by employee-turned-activist Chris Smalls. A coalition of Amazon warehouse workers in New York City have officially filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday. Kayla Blado, the press secretary for the National Labor Relations Board, confirmed to ABC News on Monday that the union petition was filed […]
Above Photo: Members of Teamsters Locals 987 and 362 protest outside an Amazon fulfillment center in Alberta, Canada, on July 14, 2021, after meeting with Amazon workers across the country to discuss working conditions and union organizing. (Teamsters Canada) The struggle to unionize Amazon is shifting to Canada, where workers in Alberta could soon be the first to unionize an Amazon warehouse in North America. Workers at the “YEG1” facility in Nisku, Alberta, just outside Edmonton, filed for a union election on Monday, September 13. The election could be held in mere weeks, once the Alberta Labour Relations Board approves the application. Workers […]
Workers At Fargo Warehouse Strike Over Virus Safety Concerns By Alex Derosier, Inforum. November 19, 2020 Workers At Fargo Warehouse Strike Over Virus Safety Concerns2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/strike-e1605832126735.jpg200px200px Above photo: Teamsters and workers of Cash-Wa Distributing in Fargo go on strike Wednesday, Nov. 18, citing unsafe conditions. C.S. Hagen / The Forum. Fargo – About 70 employees of a Fargo food distribution business went on strike Wednesday, Nov. 18, calling for resumption of union contract talks and drawing attention to what a union spokesman described as “lackadaisical” COVID-19 precautions at the site. About 20 warehouse workers and truck drivers set up picket lines outside […]
A serious blaze has broken out inside a chemical storage facility near Atlanta, Georgia, prompting local authorities to suspend traffic along a nearby highway. This is the third such incident at the facility since 2004. Ten pallets of dry chemicals caught fire at a warehouse in the town of Conyers in Rockdale County, local media reported, citing officials. The facility in question is said to belong to BioLab, a company dealing with pool and spa water-treatment chemicals. Tall plumes of white smoke could be seen rising from the building. Reporters on the ground said that they were chlorine vapor clouds, and […]
A MASSIVE explosion rocked Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday. As reported earlier by Cristina Laila The National News Agency reported that the explosion was at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port. A Powerful explosion has occured in Beirut. It’s not yet clear what caused the blast. #Beirut pic.twitter.com/h7ayT5DKdK — Sputnik Insight (@Sputnik_Insight) August 4, 2020 TRENDING: Teen Activist Who Rallied to Defund Police and Remove Police from Schools Is Shot Dead in Chicago But now there are conflicting reports including a report at Al-Hadeth that claims the massive explosion was a Hezbollah warehouse in Beirut for missiles from Iran. Al-Hadeth from […]
A MASSIVE explosion rocked Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday. As reported earlier by Cristina Laila The National News Agency reported that the explosion was at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port. A Powerful explosion has occured in Beirut. It’s not yet clear what caused the blast. #Beirut pic.twitter.com/h7ayT5DKdK — Sputnik Insight (@Sputnik_Insight) August 4, 2020 TRENDING: Teen Activist Who Rallied to Defund Police and Remove Police from Schools Is Shot Dead in Chicago But now there are conflicting reports including a report at Al-Hadeth that claims the massive explosion was a Hezbollah warehouse in Beirut for missiles from Iran. Al-Hadeth from […]
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’ […]
US 01:36 GMT 06.06.2020(updated 01:38 GMT 06.06.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107953/39/1079533985_0:0:1281:720_1200x675_80_0_0_f48efa5bcf7a1a369a1dcfd0de11e262.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006061079533958-video-huge-fire-entirely-destroys-amazon-distribution-warehouse-in-los-angeles/ Over half-a-dozen fire departments reportedly were not able to stop the fire from completely destroying the distribution facility, which was said to have entered service only recently and was equipped with the latest fire protection systems. A large warehouse facility operating as an Amazon distribution centre in Redlands, California, in the Los Angeles area, was entirely destroyed by a three-alarm fire on early Friday. The fire broke out around 5:30 a.m., and burned to the ground entire sections of the large warehouse. Firefighters from […]