Mitch

Founding member @amazonlaborunion
Building power with @amazonteamsters
probably watching a ghibli movie
mexican-American, jewish, lgbtq+
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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Amazon sets the routes, the quotas, the uniforms, the cameras — and then tells workers they don't actually work for Amazon. Every delivery worker in this city should be able to afford to live here and have their rights respected.

Workers deserve better.

[Mitch @AstuaryPrince]

@NYCMayor NYC Amazon workers deliver over 2 MILLION packages every day! We deserve respect, a safe job, and a living wage. Thank you for speaking up for us Zohran. ✊

[Mitch @AstuaryPrince]

@sophiedrukman @thebhreview (I'm also an Amazon worker/Oberlin grad)

[Mitch @AstuaryPrince]

@sophiedrukman @thebhreview You work at JFK8? Would love to talk Amazon with you at some point. Great poem 🙏

[Teamsters @Teamsters]

TEAMSTERS TELL AMAZON:
AGREE TO BARGAINING DATES BY DEC. 15

On behalf of thousands of Amazon delivery drivers and warehouse workers who have already organized for Teamsters representation nationwide, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters today gave the e-commerce giant a deadline of Dec. 15 to follow the law and agree to bargaining dates for a union contract.

“The Teamsters are done asking nicely for Amazon to stop breaking the law. Amazon must commit to come to the table and bargain a Teamsters contract with its workers — or face the consequences of its inaction,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “Thousands of Amazon workers around the country have courageously united to take on one of the world’s most abusiveemployers. Amazon has a legal obligation to recognize the Teamsters and to start negotiating. Time has run out for this trillion-dollar company. We will protect our members at all costs, and we are prepared to come after Amazon with the full force of the Teamsters Union if and when necessary to get the contract workers have earned.”

Fed up with low wages, disrespect, and illegal union busting, Amazon workers from California to New York, Illinois, Georgia, and beyond have demanded Teamsters recognition and union protections. Despite an historic organizing wave over the past two years, Amazon has continuously failed to meet its legal obligations to bargain with thousands of drivers and workers inside warehouses and fulfillment centers over its industry-worst working conditions.

The Teamsters’ demand for bargaining emerges amid ongoing worker-led actions. Just this year, Amazon warehouse workers and drivers in San Francisco, Queens, N.Y., Skokie, Ill., Atlanta, Ga., City of Industry, Calif. and Victorville, Calif., have won massive organizing campaigns. They join warehouse workers with ALU-IBT Local 1 in Staten Island, N.Y., who voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the Teamsters this summer, and Amazon Teamsters in Palmdale, Calif., who have picketed 50 Amazon warehouses nationwide as part of their ongoing strike.

“Amazon is a bully, but the Teamsters know how to deal with bullies,” said Randy Korgan, Teamsters Amazon Division Director and Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 1932. “This growing movement of Amazon workers can count on the muscle and support of more than 1.3 million hardworking Teamsters across North America. If Amazon fails to agree to bargaining dates with the Teamsters by Dec. 15, we are ready to take the fight directly to the company’s doorstep in every state. Amazon workers are going to win, and the company knows it.”

The Teamsters Amazon National Negotiating Committee is finalizing its proposal now for the first Teamsters contract at the company. The national contract proposal is being developed by rank-and-file Amazon Teamsters drivers and warehouse workers from all unionized locations.

The Teamsters Union is calling on all Amazon workers across the country to seize this historic opportunity before the end of the year to show Amazon their power and demand good jobs, fair wages, safe working conditions, and the protections of a strong Teamsters agreement.

“This is our moment,” said Luc Rene, an Amazon Teamster at DBK4 in Queens. “More Amazon workers are joining the movement every single day. If you work at Amazon — as a driver, warehouse worker or in any other capacity — we urge you to get involved in this fight for dignified wages and better careers. Please reach out to the Teamsters today. The real battle is about to kick off.”

[Teamsters @Teamsters]

BREAKING: 🚨 Hundreds of Amazon drivers at the trillion-dollar company’s DFX4 facility in Victorville, Calif., have joined the Teamsters and are demanding that Amazon recognize their union and negotiate a Teamsters contract 🚨

This is the third facility in the last month alone where hundreds of Amazon workers have courageously gone public to join the Teamsters.

[Amazon Teamsters @amazonteamsters]

🚨BREAKING: A majority of drivers at Amazon’s DBK4 facility in Queens, N.Y. have now joined the Teamsters, with hundreds joining in the last week alone, to secure the rights, respect, wages, and benefits we deserve! Amazon workers: this is our moment!

[Amazon Teamsters @amazonteamsters]

HUGE NEWS FOR AMAZON DRIVERS! The National Labor Relations Board decided that we are Amazon employees. What does this mean? Amazon HAS to recognize our union and negotiate a fair contract.

The time to get involved is now! https://t.co/5WVxKQ94iW

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

Let's fucking go! 🔥

[Sara Nelson @FlyingWithSara]

Oh yeahhhhhhhh.

[LDJ5Unite @LDJ5Unite]

LDJ5 workers are standing up for higher pay, better working conditions, and respect! 30+ workers marched on the boss, and over 200 signed the letter!

#LDJ5Unite #Amazon #1u #Solidarity #MakeAmazonPay #Labor #LaborMovement #WorkersRights

[Mitch @AstuaryPrince]

The only thing that will stop Amazon from continuing these blatant attacks on our rights is when we come together to resist, and remind them that we, the workers, make their money. Organize your warehouse. Organize your workplace.

[Mitch @AstuaryPrince]

Amazon fired a close friend and comrade, @ConnorSpence_ , in retaliation for organizing. To Amazon: we have what you will never have, solidarity, and we are not afraid. Connor: I will always have your back, and the workers of @LDJ5Unite stand with you.

#ReinstateConnorSpence

[Mitch @AstuaryPrince]

The firing cited that Connor was on premises while not on shift and that he violated the “off duty access policy” which was ruled illegal by the NLRB this year. I have full confidence they will find Amazon violated the law here. Sadly, it isn’t the law that will save us.

[LDJ5Unite @LDJ5Unite]

Congrats to our brothers and sisters at UPS! You’re lifting up the whole industry’s standards. Amazon workers stand with you. ✊ #1u

[Sara Nelson @FlyingWithSara]

It’s capitalism. There’s no political solution. There’s only the countervailing force of the working class standing together in solidarity and demanding our fair share that gives a prayer of making good on the promise “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for everyone.

[LDJ5Unite @LDJ5Unite]

Inspiring action from our brothers and sisters in Michigan. LDJ5 workers stand in solidarity with you!

https://t.co/OepSY4rbWF

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Retweet if you’re a part of “Big Labor” ✊🏾🔥

[Mitch @AstuaryPrince]

@NADDPod Come to NYC!!! We miss you guys