Six hundred of our Amazon co-workers at five warehouses around New York signed a petition demanding starting wages of $25 an hour, time-and-a-half pay for Prime Day (July 16-17), seasonal workers converted to permanent status within 30 days of employment, and Juneteenth as a paid holiday. The June 19 holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. and became a federal holiday in 2021—the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was recognized in 1983.
This is why unions and collective bargaining are so important. They can try, but they can’t ignore the demands of literally all the people doing the actual work.
This is why unions and collective bargaining are so important. They can try, but they can’t ignore the demands of literally all the people doing the actual work.
Can everybody down there please just watch “A Bug’s Life”? Or “Antz”, even?