The International Amazon Workers Voice newsletter is assisting workers in the building of an interconnected network of committees of Amazon and logistics workers, as well as autoworkers, educators, and workers in other key industries.
The defeat of this highly publicized unionization campaign in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) was unable to make the slightest appeal to workers.
The crushing defeat for the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama plant exposes the extent of workers’ alienation from the pro-corporate unions.
Amazon workers at several Baltimore Fulfillment Centers spoke to the International Amazon Workers Voice to share their concerns about rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in their facilities.
Amazon should reveal all information it has regarding the working conditions and potential exposure of former warehouse COVID-19 tester Poushawn Brown to the appropriate authorities and the Brown family.
The International Amazon Workers Voice is assisting workers in the building of a network of interconnected rank-and-file committees of Amazon and logistics workers, as well as autoworkers, educators, and workers in other key sections of industry.
Fill out this form to join the committee nearest you. If a committee at your workplace does not exist, we will help you build one.
We, the Amazonians of Baltimore, hereby announce the formation of an independent rank-and-file safety committee at the Amazon BWI2 Fulfillment Center. In launching the committee, our goal is to expose the conditions at our facility and the lies of management meant to cover them up. We are an organization of, for, and led by Amazon workers which will defend the rights and safety of our fellow employees.
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Parties internationally are assisting workers in building committees to provide the new and democratic organisations of class struggle workers need to stop the spread of COVID-19 and fight back against attacks on jobs, pay and conditions
The meeting featured an international panel of speakers, who explained the committee’s demands for the closure of schools and all nonessential production, and the provision of full wages to all affected workers so they can shelter at home, to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
Amazon should reveal all information it has regarding the working conditions and potential exposure of former warehouse COVID-19 tester Poushawn Brown to the appropriate authorities and the Brown family.
The struggle by graduate student workers at Columbia University for a living wage shows the need to build a rank-and-file committee independently of the UAW and the Democratic Party that will unite with K-12 educators and other workers in a common struggle.
