MADISON, Wis. Madison organizers rallied on Sunday to show solidarity with workers who voted yes when Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama voted for unions earlier this month.
Workers from a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, voted on the weather to be the first group of union workers. The votes counted on Friday said there would be no union.
“Amazon did not win this election scholarship, but they took out every trick in the book,” said socialist alternative organizer Jacob Druker.
There are reports from workers that they had to attend mandatory meetings to persuade them to vote against the union before the vote, and that Amazon hung up anti-union posters in the warehouse.
Speaking during the Madison protest, the organizer of our Wisconsin revolution, Ashley Hudson, said: “They have succeeded in making Bessemer’s ‘public police’ – as paid by our tax money – function as private security to intimidate the workers. “
Only about half of the warehouse workers voted in the union election.
“It does not mean that the workers like Amazon. What it does mean is that Amazon played dirty, and therefore they won,” Druker said.
The union for retail, wholesale and department stores, where employees vote to join, said they would lodge a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
Amazon believes its employees have expressed their clear desire not to cooperate in their voices.
“The objective conditions that Covid has caused with more exploitation and inequality than ever before make people angry, frustrated, desperate, and they are ready to look at solutions they might not have previously considered such as working together. to work, “Druker said. .
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