Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practices

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[@jessereddragon7617]

your don't tell the truth, you help spread misinformation and your news is one sided

[@heynowls3058]

Solidarity with Amazon workers.

[@NanayLV]

"RICH MAN VS. POOR PEOPLE"

[@taix371]

Power to the people!

[@User_92020]

As a former "amazon" I can surely say that amazon needs to unionized.

[@grumpycat9065]

Never going to happen. Politicians have too much invested in that garbage company. And yes, I have also worked at Amazon in warehouse and dispatch. Worst decision of my life.

[@1398go]

That is the only way. These issues of corporate greed will continue unless they don’t have a work force.

[@CBT5777]

The whole country needs to go on strike.

[@Hollywoodmoviehighlights]

This greedy billionaires are the worst 🪱🪱🤬🤬🤬

[@irenehigginbotham6392]

Unions rock!❤

[@ArleeStarr]

Not the police unions.💀💩

[@lrsvgn]

Corporate media is focusing on the problem that packages are not arriving on time. We need more Democracy Now!

[@LF-ce4cn]

Seriously?! Of course, what else can we expect from corporate-owned media?!

[@brianjones6072]

NYPD is Muscle for the Bosses

[@rhodeislandhiker4745]

They are saying people who work in Amazon warehouses are not Amazon workers , people who drive Amazon trucks are not Amazon workers . Then please show me some Amazon workers ? Because all their support staff and Customer service staff is over seas so they are not Amazon workers. I work Amazon flex we are not Amazon workers either . Amazon needs to take care of the people who work for them

[@angelmossucco]

Power does not concede without a struggle.

[@robertmarshall1545]

They are sub contractors. They work for themselves. They aren't on any Amazon payroll.

[@ScottDieken]

Yes and they didn't say anything on the show to prove otherwise.​@@robertmarshall1545

[@alexpope4642]

@robertmarshall1545 I also love the taste of boots.

[@SublimeThinker]

I will not be buying anything from Amazon!!! Until it treats workers humanely

[@TheOneNeo390]

So they are treated like animals?

[@faniarethas2716]

@@TheOneNeo390 Arrogant comment!

[@profmj7630]

Proud of these ppl for fighting back !!! 🫡

[@Roguefem76]

I had a brief stint at working for Amazon and none of this surprises me. No company should have so much power.

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

I hope you’re happy that Biden’s FTC is suing Jeff Bezos’s in Amazon right now. But I would follow this case if I were you because once Trump becomes inaugurated, I guarantee you he’s going to end the lawsuit when he replaces the FTC with his people.

[@Roguefem76]

@Tad-For-Global-Peace Imagine being proud that your dude is a cuck for billionaires. Does Trump lick Jeff's boots too, or did Daddy Elon not give him permission? 😆

[@Roguefem76]

@@Tad-For-Global-Peace Imagine being proud that your dude is a bootlick for billionaires. 🤡 Jeff better hope Trump's sugar daddy Musk gives the okay!

[@LF-ce4cn]

Solidarity with Amazon workers. Power to the people!

[@Ani_Watermelon]

Next, waiters and waitresses. They should be paid accordingly, and not depend their livelihood on tips. It's the USA! The 3rd world countries even pay (service people) better than you do. Really embarrassing.

[@savagelevel714]

NEXT IS RENT AND TAXES

[@josephlalock8378]

over the years, i have known a lot of people who got by rather well on less than minimum wage + tips. they weren't cry babies. they busted their asses to make good tips. unlike servers today who do as little as possible for as much as possible. getting real tired of all the whiners.

[@elw6150]

Never go to restaurants, when you have to ask for napkins, water or additional food and wait, wait, wait then treated like you are asking for too much then expect 20+ percent tip, forget about it!!

[@wilson8979]

⁠@@josephlalock8378inflation. Low wages are not a living wage. Bust your ass for what? Can’t afford, rent, food and gas on low wages

[@pango-y8j]

And teachers

[@TheeOldest]

People over Packages!!! Boycott Amazon!!!

[@ArleeStarr]

Make Besos a third rate bookseller again.

[@lisae6725]

I’m not ordering anything for Christmas off of Amazon this year and I hope others will follow suit. We all should be saving our money for the upcoming recession and maybe even worse.

[@Moxp06]

How is the aggression from Amazon on its workers as a whole not considered an act of terrorism?

[@LF-ce4cn]

EXACTLY!

[@tinkerbell1120]

I have never purchased anything from Amazon and never will unless workers are provided a living wage and proper benefits.

[@leliad7602]

I can wait for my packages, or purchase elsewhere, in solidarity with the workers, without whom Amazon would not exist.

[@shadowban581]

Right!? my shit can wait.

[@LF-ce4cn]

Yes!!!!

[@watermage25]

Trillion dollar company abuses and exploits workers. Respect to those fighting for their rights

[@benstandard]

They'll just import workers from abroad.

[@TheOneNeo390]

Your comment is laughable 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bottledrinking3598]

Amazon preaches about safety during orientation but neglects all of that. I’m sorry but the amount of shit that us Amazon employees do $15 is not enough. On top of that you get an hour break for more than a 10+ shift. Not to mention we’re forced to work overtime as they issue it to be mandatory. This entire month was mandatory for extra shifts because they decided to do an entire week of Black Friday and their employees pay the price. Amazon is wonderful but it can also go to hell for the shit that they pull.

[@terrancekayton007]

“They just don’t want to work.” …no! We don’t want to work in horrible working conditions and poor pay!

[@kingokafor6215]

Arrested for going on strike. Are they really here to protect and serve? Or deliver retribution for the wealthy?

[@Annie-t7m9w]

Amazon should close.

[@MYouTubeTvGC]

I would much rather know that AMAZON employees are treated with correct working conditions and that OSHA and the government should step in those Wearhouses and collect all the money feom fines if they see violations to USA work laws and building regulations plus fire hazard. Packages are not that important , we need to take care of USA workers and support their efforst to have a netter working place

[@ronhartley4307]

Bozo’s paying the police!

[@tinkerbell1120]

He's too cheap to do that. He's using your tax dollars to silence the people.

[@loris6413]

Those cops need to remember, they're union too.

[@777-93-j]

Ohio is striking too…

[@buicklincoln]

The workers are contracted through "Driver Service Partners." Their employer is the individual "DSP" that gives them their paycheck every two weeks. If a DSP doesn't have enough drivers to cover their routes, the DSP owes Amazon money AND loses the route for the day. If the DSP doesn't improve performance, they can be fired by Amazon. If a DSP says to Amazon they can't do their agreed upon routes, Amazon will find another DSP or get more Amazon Flex drivers to cover the routes.

[@ArleeStarr]

That has nothing to do with the workers' right to organize a union and join the Teamsters.

[@alexpope4642]

I think the point they're trying to make is that if the DSP is directly beholden to amazon then they are amazon employees.

[@RandyHS.]

I feel sorry for the workers; who will be individually, separately, and personally, tracked down and dealt with by Jeff Bezos...

[@selalewis9189]

Don’t forget Chris Smalls along the way. He was instrumental to getting the union this far. Don’t let petty grievances erase someone’s impact. In the long run, you will regret it. Solidarity with all workers ✊🏾 even the difficult ones.

[@ronhartley4307]

Everyone should have a union behind them, especially in this modern day work environment. Fight fight fight !

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

Why do the Republican Party Want to Destroy Labor Unions! The GOP sees unions and their supporters as enemies to be politically and economically destroyed.

[@ArleeStarr]

No unionized urban armies that protect and serve the corporations only.

[@peoplefordani]

There were four workers protesting outside the Amazon building in Iowa. Yes, the total number of protestors was FOUR! 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@620Karma]

Everyone I know who has ever worked at Amazon and their fulfillment center has incurred some type of physical injury in less than two years of being employed there. And I don’t mean some basic injury I mean a life changing muscles, torn bones, broken screws, inserted injury. So when you can sit and how hard these people work their bodies for money that they can barely live off of, they should all strike and quit.

[@SomeGuyFromUtah]

I don't like the practice of using 3rd party contractors and dressing them up like Amazon employees and driving Amazon owned vehicles to deliver packages, but I don't think the current law sides with these employees who are technically employees of 3rd party contractors and not Amazon directly. There needs to be better clarification on the rules for this type of practice. Whether it's a 3rd party company contracting with Amazon to deliver packages or gig workers like Uber or Doordash. I would be surprised if Amazon gives in on this.

[@Sleepycollegestudent]

Most of the warehouses aren’t even profitable, I’m all for a union but they will literally just close the warehouse

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

Four more years of Trump will end in the utter demise of the labor movement and the immiseration of a large portion of workers while furthering the concentration of income, wealth and power among a corporate and billionaire elite. Biden and the Democrats are not out to destroy unions and, will blunt the corporate/Republican anti-union crusade. And, at best, Biden and the Democrats will enact pro-worker legislation to the degree that unions and progressive groups are mobilized and activated. While the Democrats represent the possibility of pro-worker legislation especially if pushed by mass mobilization, Trump and the Republicans are out to destroy unions no matter what we do.

[@jasonhall3693]

What are you talking about?! Amazon is worth 2.35 trillion dollars.

[@elw6150]

Close them down!

[@Elizabeth912-v6o]

NONE OF THIS SURPRISES ME!!!!😮‍💨

[@Nana-W2024]

Good luck. I hope you all get a fair deal from Bezos, don’t worry he can afford it.

[@steven7297]

bezos trying to cozy up to trump to avoid much needed change is at this point not surprising

[@ArleeStarr]

A perceptive commentator on the "Headlines" thread wrote, "Bezos bends the knee for Musk...not tRump."

[@jamesjohnson1790]

Very proud of the Union it's about time we start sticking it to them

[@ErykD-r5d]

Fire all these bums!!! now

[@buicklincoln]

You would feel differently if you worked there.

[@CalvinMorris-cf8jk]

warehouse workers, delivery drivers and burger flippers are not 90,000 dollar a year jobs, the people down on the bottom can only make so much money doing unskilled jobs, life is hard but it is what it is, otherwise why would anyone go to collage, this woke stuff about these unskilled workers needing to make 20 to 80 dollars a hour is madness, the burger flippers are making 20 to 25 a hour now and wanting more money, soon we will be paying 40 dollars for a burger, this madness needs to stop somewhere, I can hardly afford to shop Amazon now or eat out fast food. crazy stuff.

[@ArleeStarr]

Odds are you are not demanding student debt relief for having to borrow to achieve higher education.

[@CalvinMorris-cf8jk]

@@ArleeStarr very true, I got my education in the marines, joined at 17 years old and retired at 38 with full benefits, been retired 30 years and living the good life, wishing you the best.👍❤ semper fi.

[@620Karma]

I completely disagree. I graduated high school at 17 and I have a college degree. And to make hands meet I still have to do a second job on the side. Your white privilege makes you say the things you say.

[@thizziannajones]

✊️

[@FlowerPower-r8h]

Only in a few blue states. Red states, which are the majority of the states, will pick up the slack.

[@ri874]

Is Donald Trump extorting millionaires now? How many millionaires have "donated" to the Trump pot?

[@bombaybeach208]

Kelly Nantel-what a shill.

[@shadowban581]

really wish when bald lazy eye Bezo had to give half his billions to his x wife she wold have given some to the employees. No sick time, no retirement plan and no bathroom break. Bring you own depends.

[@tmnt10000]

Instead of complaining, create your own company that makes enough money so you can pay your employees a good wage

[@melissabruhn1429]

Solidarity ✊🏻. Highly recommend an informative Jeff Bezos mockumentary by Hysteria podcast channel.

[@ArleeStarr]

Many thanks for making me aware of the podcast. Hilarious and accurate too.❤👍

[@orlandomolina7192]

Organizing with the teamsters? Didn’t they , the teamsters go all out for Trump in this election?

[@shne388]

🥳✊🏻

[@smokindauberdoo4208]

👍👍✊️👏👏✌️💙🙏😇

[@Hall_and_Ghost]

Local 804... Round 2 protest

[@CiudadLoch-nw7yo]

Dead of winter!?!

[@Marinemomof3Oceanside]

I have never used anazon, and will never! Boycott these araes!!! 😡😤

[@620Karma]

Say it again I wish I had been as smart as you a while back. I knew this about Walmart and therefore never spent my money there I recently learned the same about Amazon, so I have since learning that canceled my subscription have not ordered anything for Amazon nor do I watch anything on Amazon AmazonTV channel

[@cardmanjohn4916]

Fire them.

[@ronhartley4307]

You must be a CEO

[@TW0man4RMY]

@@ronhartley4307 Maybe but it actually brings up an interesting point. CAN Amazon fire all of them?

[@melissabruhn1429]

All workers deserve basic right to safe, non-exploitative work conditions.

[@Planner38]

Have the Teamsters found Jimmy Hoffa yet? Keep in mind the long standing links between the Teamsters and organized crime.

[@ArleeStarr]

Are you calling the 1.3 million members gangsters? Or past presidents and officials? If you are, then that would mean 76 M voters are xenophobic, racist, fascists that voted for tRump

[@ArleeStarr]

joutube/izzytube/besostube does not allow an accurate dispute to your wrongly worded crap.

[@shankar0]

The Teamsters Union is overstepping by targeting Amazon for labor disputes involving third-party contractors. These workers are employed by independent companies, not Amazon, making the contractors legally responsible for wages, benefits, and safety. The Teamsters misrepresent their authority, bypass actual employers, and risk misleading the public while stretching the “joint employer” argument. Their actions divert accountability from contractors, politicize the issue, and risk harm to workers by focusing on headlines rather than effective solutions. The proper approach should hold contractors accountable and use legal channels to address grievances.

[@xa1531]

Bo(ugh)t

[@ArleeStarr]

@@xa1531 Nicely done.

[@ArleeStarr]

🥱🤑🤖It does not matter who pays the workers. They still have the right to organize and join the Teamsters. Everything you wrote is meaningless.

[@tinkerbell1120]

Don't stop!!! Bezos is donating 1 million towards Trump's inauguration but won't give his employees a measly living wage! The lack of humanity in Billionaires is unfathomable.

[@ScottDieken]

Nothing anyone said on the show proves to me that these people work directly for Amazon if you don't work for Amazon you can't strike against Amazon you can only strike against the company that you work for. I'm with the employees of Amazon to try to get better conditions in a little bit more money but this is ridiculous you won't even answer the question straight just cuz they organized doesn't mean that they're Amazon employees they could be employees of anyone that's organizing and just telling us to go to the picket line sorry we can't do that so you need to give us a real reason why they are Amazon employees

[@jessebohanan1922]

Lol I work at an Amazon and there's like a max of 7 people... This is teamster. Lol the strike looks pathetic

[@mhobin12]

Report the truth! None of the striking people are Amazon employees they’re all independent contractors paid by someone other than Amazon they want to strike for better pay or something. They need to talk to those that pay them not a company that does not pay them.

[@samudramanthan8645]

I increased my income, incrementally, by studying and adding new skills to my resume over the years. Weird, isn't it? I must be sooooooo special (or, of course, entitled)!

[@LF-ce4cn]

So who is supposed to package and ship the stuff we buy? Those people don’t deserve fair wages?

[@samudramanthan8645]

@@LF-ce4cn What's a "fair wage"?

[@620Karma]

The funny thing is, though with all those degrees, you cannot produce manufacture package and ship your own goods to yourselves. So the same people that you’re making light of your life cannot function without them.

[@smokehouse420-x9k]

Easily replaceable

[@ronhartley4307]

Spoken like a CEO

[@inmortal131]

All jobs easily replaceable I know people have many experience in technology and very hard to find other job.

[@andyo.593]

Why not find another job? They burned the bridge, why go back?

[@sallydonaldson9802]

How revolting that Amy keeps begging for money while she makes $2.3 million a year and then pays Juan Gonzales $137,000 a year , that’s a racist

[@Roguefem76]

You MAGAts are really crap at pretending to be leftists.

[@ArleeStarr]

Prove it sweetie! Otherwise you just write the kind of lies and misinformation that is welcomed by joutube/izzytube/besostube/googletube, but impossible to counter with accurate points.

[@ArleeStarr]

Pure tripe. Got proof? Why would she pay Juan more than she pays herself for a salary? Juan is only an infrequent host after retirement.

[@ArleeStarr]

Calling Amy a racist is anti-Semitic.

[@Curt-Gevert]

That's where striker replacement would be helpful

[@Roguefem76]

Scab.

[@ZeroGods4595]

Support ❤

[@user-pt9iz3zo7g]

Can't wait until these ungrateful bums are replaced. Minimum skills equal minimum wages. Want more? Do more.

[@robertmarshall1545]

They aren't Amazon employees, they are sub contractors paid 1099. False bs. If they don't like the work or pay, find a job they do.

[@ArleeStarr]

The classification does not matter. They still have a right to strike and unionize. Go get 'em Teamsters.

[@robertmarshall1545]

@ArleeStarr more than likely they will be hitting the unemployment line. Unfortunately for them, they are voluntarily quitting so no pay for you.

[@AEWxObituary]

1099 slavery is okay, W-2 slavery is not, right?

[@alwayshatin3973]

Amazon is fucked if that is their work force. You know those guys show up to work when and if they even want to.

[@ronhartley4307]

Everyone should have a union behind them, especially in this modern day work environment. Fight fight fight !

[@ArleeStarr]

Not the urban armies. I refer to your comment on Bozo's paying the police!