The workplace throws us together regardless of culture, race, gender, and language. We may have little in common besides the need to earn a livelihood. But working shoulder to shoulder, we generate a union culture. Hear how Amazon workers have gone about building a union culture in the early days.
Hear Amazon workers from different groups across North America and Europe describe how they’re organizing at the corporate giant—running elections, building independent unions, organizing with established unions, taking direct actions on the job, and striking.
Ever since workers in the U.S. started forming unions, we've had to overcome mistrust between groups and get co-workers with different cultures and languages working together. Hear how workers are making solidarity the norm—and building astonishing collective power—in a Kroger grocery warehouse, on a Minnesota university campus, at Amazon, and in food delivery on the streets of New York City. This panel will inspire you!
Robotics at Amazon is just getting started, but already it's intensifying work, degrading jobs, and displacing workers. Hear how robotics and A.I. are reshaping the relationship between workers and bosses.
With facilities on every continent except Antarctica and more than 1.5 million employees, Amazon is the infrastructure that makes the global economy move, from the virtual to the physical world. One click can set in motion a vast network of warehouses, cargo ships, planes, and delivery vans. Get a glimpse of how Amazon workers in Spain, Germany, Poland and France are organizing against a corporate giant.
What can teachers and Amazon workers learn from one another? Hear how workers are building power and striking in two very different kinds of workplaces (and three countries). Between an anti-union mega-corporation and an embattled public sector, and across national borders, it's illuminating to see what our struggles have in common.
Most Amazon delivery drivers are employed by third-party subcontractors. In a typical last-mile warehouse, the workforce is divided among several of these small companies, plus some Flex drivers using their personal vehicles and a phone app. How do you organize under these conditions? We'll hear from drivers who are doing it, and strategize how to hold Amazon accountable through collective action.
Frequent collective action builds power. In this participatory workshop for Amazon workers, learn how to evaluate workplace problems to find which ones are ripe for organizing, and how to involve more members and build union power.
