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Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment is a worker-led union that is organizing Amazon RDU1 in Garner, NC.

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#istandwithmamary Ma Mary had a message for the 2026 Met Gala sponsored by Jeff Bezos! She is 72 years old, a three time cancer survivor and long time Amazon worker in North Carolina. Hear her words and if possible help her retire:
https://t.co/GzJC25SLyb

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"They Told Us Not To Call 911"—Amazon is Covering Up Deaths

Italo Medelius from @amazoncause joins us to talk disturbing reports of deaths and injury cover-ups at Amazon warehouses in North Carolina & beyond. Plus we receive a powerful call-in from a @Teamsters member.

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While billionaires celebrated at the Met Gala, seventy two year old Amazon worker Mary Hill told the truth. Workers keep this country running, not CEOs. Read this from INDY Week: https://t.co/ID8il3fQQa

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Garner Amazon worker's message to founder Jeff Bezos goes viral with 10M+ views https://t.co/PgRjOx1ijB

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Workers were told “not to look” – and to “get back to work,” just as we were at RDU1.

WE NEED ANSWERS. NOW. (5/5)

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TWO OF OUR CO-WORKERS HAVE DIED.

We at Amazon RDU1 are grieving the recent loss of two of our co-workers. One collapsed on the 4th floor on March 1, 2026. The managers on duty did not call 911 and it took the Wellness staff more than thirty minutes to arrive. (1/5)

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Both men were well-liked and long-time employees with friends among us. We were not even notified by Amazon about how to attend their memorial services. Another of our fellow Amazon workers died this year in a Portland warehouse. (4/5)

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#istandwithmamary Ma Mary is our beloved co-founder. This weekend, she fearlessly protested Bezos's Ball. She is 72 years old, a three time cancer survivor, a badass union organizer and has worked at Amazon for 7+ years. Help her retire!! https://t.co/GzJC25SLyb

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"It's wrong when you can clock in 10-12 hours and clock out and still go home wondering how the rent is going to get paid...something is wrong when survival takes everything you've got and still leaves vou short. That's not how it's supposed to be." - Rev. Ryan Brown #mayday

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If there’s one thing this year has taught us, it’s simple: Don’t Quit! Organize.

Support our efforts by volunteering through the link in bio. If you’re an Amazon worker DM us! Donations to keep this going accepted through our website.

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A brief recap of our organizing over the past year for International Workers' Day 2026:

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CAUSE was founded in 2022. Since then, it’s been a journey shaped by struggle and solidarity: hosting cookouts, distributing literature to inform our co-workers of their rights, fighting through a major union election, and securing smaller but meaningful wins through petitions.

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Despite repeated union protests, Amazon has no trained nurse or doctor on staff at the giant RDU1 facility of nearly 5,000 workers. The company discourages workers from calling 911, instructing them to notify the building’s Wellness Center and then continue working. (5/5)

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We are reporting the recent death of a worker at the RDU1 warehouse in Garner, NC. (1/5)

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“To me, it was negligence,” he says.
The worker, a 55-year old military veteran and long-time Amazon employee, passed away the next day. Amazon has communicated nothing to RDU1 Associates about their co-worker’s death or explained the slow response time. (4/5)

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“He was on the floor. It looked to me like he was dying. I had to leave after fifteen or twenty minutes because Amazon will you charge you time. They still hadn’t come.” (3/5)

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Eyewitnesses say that the worker suffered what appeared to be a stroke on the 4th floor assembly area shortly after arriving to work on Sunday, Mar 1, 2026. He collapsed, and his co-workers notified Wellness Staff. They took approx. half hour to arrive. (2/5)

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Calling all union members & community supporters in Durham: Come out to the CAUSE Party! Dance, poetry, music and good times with our own DJs and musicians from RDU5!

Be there or be a broligarch.