Organizing at Amazon: Lessons Learned and the Work Ahead
Channel: Labor Notes
Date: 2021-04-29

Amazon is now the second-largest employer in the U.S., and a presence everywhere in the lives of Americans, reshaping the retail and logistics landscape. This panel provides an overview of the company’s operations and growth and the threat it poses to members of the Teamsters, postal unions, UFCW, ILWU, and other unions, as well as working conditions generally. Hear from workers on what it’s like to work at Amazon, and about organizing in the company’s warehouses. Moderator: Maximillian Alvarez, Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network and host of Working People podcast. Panelists: Peter Olney, retired organizing director, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Lauren Kaori Gurley, senior staff writer at Motherboard, VICE's tech site, and two representatives from Amazonians United in NYC.