In Their Own Words
Edited by Kylie Smith and Jonathan Rosenblum
For Amazon workers seeking union rights, is the company simply too big and powerful to beat?
While workers in the US have not yet succeeded in getting Amazon to recognize unions and bargain, they still have found other ways to flex their power and force the company to make workplace improvements. Below, in their own words, are just some of the stories of how Amazon workers have come together, organized, and won better pay and benefits, job security, and safety at Amazon.
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KCVG Workers Organize And Win Seasonal Conversion to Permanent Status (With Benefits) for Hundreds of Workers!
“I felt powerful in that moment, surrounded by a coalition of multiracial, multi-gendered, multigenerational people who believed our individual victories were directly linked to our collective success and struggle against Amazon”
Josh Crowell, KCVG
Victory for Basic Human Decency! Collective Action Wins Workplace Injury Accommodations
“Collective Action has to involve people, and must be consistently done in public. If you don't put in that work, if people can’t see or witness this kind of action, nothing in people’s lives will tell them they have collective power”
GPaul, Philadelphia-area worker