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so excited to be alive at the moment we finally manage to roll progress back to robber barons, company towns, and company schools, really excited for the next innovation when amazon begins paying gig workers in company scrip that can only be used at amazon storefronts https://t.co/gGWZPoAMpc
— anna phylaxis (@quatoria) February 19, 2021
“There’s always this pool of people who are one step behind you. So, if you speak up or if you organize, there’s a hundred temp workers right outside the door who would be able to take your job.” https://t.co/8H1py1B4P1
— Jerry Davis (@vanishingcorp) February 19, 2021
Our global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay featured in the @nytimes:https://t.co/CaALU2amiL
— Progressive International (@ProgIntl) February 19, 2021
Hey remember how like every movie and show you watched as a kid in the 80s and 90s made fun of public schooling and we destroyed it and now we have Amazon schools https://t.co/8aQ6lG8waU
— The Cyber (@r0wdy_) February 19, 2021
All right, fuck it.
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) February 19, 2021
Hey @amazon: While you're spewing Leadership Principles at public school students, see if you can spot which word in "HIRE and Develop the Best" that you forgot. https://t.co/9nNpBO9xKA
Anyone who buys from @amazon (all of us) needs to read this @nytimes piece on their labor practices - during COVID & beyond: https://t.co/QcXjjBGl30
— Jessica Lin (@jerseejess) February 19, 2021
Deep down, we all know how inhumanely Amazon treats their employees. But in order to demand better, we must stare it down 1/
The pandemic cemented Amazon’s hold on the economy — but it also spurred employees to organize. Read the @NYTmag cover story on the Great Amazon Awakening https://t.co/Kr7TnvYrgY
— DealBook (@dealbook) February 20, 2021
?comp comp comp company highschool ? https://t.co/l0pS76knVT
— raina douris (@RahRahRaina) February 19, 2021
Hey I've read this dystopian book. https://t.co/7ZUG5D68ET
— Actual Batwoman (@ClaireGilch) February 19, 2021
For years, Amazon’s Inland Empire operations have damaged employees’ health and polluted their neighborhoods. COVID-19 made the problems worse, and workers are fighting back. Our local IE partners are documenting these efforts: https://t.co/qKBNajBS2k 1/ https://t.co/sNIp6a15qu
— Climates of Inequality (@HAL_COI) February 19, 2021
America is rightly proud of its separation between church and state. Perhaps we need a separation between corporations and state too? https://t.co/hWQIiyndis
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) February 19, 2021
one of the under-acknowledged aspects of amazon work is how common it is for employees to be physically in pain at work and how normal it appears, in this instance, for so many people to be at an "in-house Amazon first-aid facility." https://t.co/DuR9vUikaB pic.twitter.com/AuqdZIs0YR
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) February 19, 2021
I am struck once again by how Amazon replicates Walmart's path to dominance but as @alexnpress notes, there's no folksy cover story just brute force https://t.co/Vw1RIDYxY0
— Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) February 18, 2021
amazon has become a very real dystopian tentacled nightmare corporation and it just keeps growing https://t.co/xxsRUfqnjy
— Nate Goldman (@ungoldman) February 19, 2021
Brian Freeman, a workers’ comp lawyer has represented 78 injured Amazon employees: “They are reaching down for boxes all day. Bending in ways they are not used to & all of a sudden, BAM. They break. Their neck, their back, their arms, something goes out.” https://t.co/ulQtD1rHfk
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) February 20, 2021
I wrote about Amazon’s labor awakening for the "future of work" issue of this week's @NYTMag. The story covers two years in California’s Inland Empire, home to 14 Amazon facilities and over 40,000 of the company's employees. https://t.co/zSw0U5XU2U
— Erika Hayasaki (@ErikaHayasaki) February 18, 2021
Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening | NYTimes
— Yasmine Agelidis (@AgelidisYasmine) February 21, 2021
“There’s always this pool of people who are one step behind you. So, if you speak up or if you organize, there’s a hundred temp workers right outside the door who would be able to take your job.” - @sheheyk https://t.co/ecpaUkVROn
A long, but fascinating read - Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening https://t.co/pv0TuKoqYF
— Cathy Roberson (@cmroberson06) February 21, 2021
The NYTimes believes what is going on at Amazon is so important that it deserves the entire cover of its Sunday magazine! https://t.co/SgLPrRCw5n
— Stuart Appelbaum (@sappelbaum) February 20, 2021
this is wild https://t.co/SHBf0Kjdog pic.twitter.com/PIZbBiUMO9
— Alex Press (@alexnpress) February 18, 2021
“They are reaching down for boxes all day. Bending in ways they are not used to, and all of the sudden, bam,” the workmen’s compensation lawyer said of Amazon employees. “They break. Their neck, their back, their arms, something goes out.”https://t.co/QEhLwUgR27
— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) February 21, 2021
Amazon won. Did we lose? Great @ErikaHayasaki on the labor movement rising from a retail revolution, told from the Inland Empire https://t.co/9zBu1mTqf7
— Shelby Grad (@shelbygrad) February 21, 2021
For years, Amazon’s Inland Empire operations have damaged employees’ health and polluted their neighborhoods. COVID-19 made the problems worse, and workers are fighting back. Our local IE partners are documenting these efforts: https://t.co/qKBNajBS2k 1/ https://t.co/sNIp6a15qu
— Climates of Inequality (@HAL_COI) February 19, 2021
Paywalled out of the New York Times? Read @ErikaHayasaki's in-depth coverage of Amazon's presence in the Inland Empire here: https://t.co/g4cBdS5uNX https://t.co/KjEVcOV7XK
— IE Amazonians Unite (@amazoniansunite) February 18, 2021
This is very important long form journalism about militant worker fight back against Amazon, the central global supply chain corporation of capitalist modernity--want to say a bit more below/Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening https://t.co/Kkc7oqCG93
— Richard Yeselson (@yeselson) February 21, 2021
China’s version of the future https://t.co/s2vuaoi5CC
— Evan Kirstel (@EvanKirstel) February 22, 2021