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The outcome delivers a setback to organized labor, which had hoped the Bessemer election would help establish a foothold at Amazon. But unions, worker advocates and some employees at the Bessemer facility, known as BHM1, said they believe that the Bessemer election will fuel further organizing attempts at other warehouses across the country. Labor leaders say the Bessemer election also revealed to the general public the lengths to which employers will go to prevent unions.
According to multiple workers and union representatives who described the tactics, Amazon unleashed an aggressive public relations campaign at BHM1, including text messages to employees, leaflets, a website that urged workers to do it without dues and fliers posted in bathrooms that urged workers to vote NO.
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[W]orkers at DIL3, an Amazon delivery station in Gage Park on the South Side of Chicago walked off the graveyard shift, chanting stop megacycle! Â Megacycle is Amazon s 10-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, that runs from roughly 1:20am to 11:50am, and has been rolled out across the United States over the past year, upending the lives of thousands of Amazon employees, by forcing them to choose between quitting their jobs or working in the middle of the night.
For single parents, those who care for elderly family members, or workers with health issues who were used to four-to-eight hour shifts, the new megacycle schedule has been untenable. Amazon workers and drivers in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, and South Carolina, have also been transitioned to the megacycle shift.
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Amazon wanted its workforce to break its back for 10 hours straight, four nights a week, hauling boxes. It got what it wished. As a result, its labor pool is growing stronger by the day just not to its advantage.
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Today, Amazon workers walked out of DIL3, a Chicago delivery facility. At this point, workers have consistently listed so many hardships worthy of protest that you’re probably familiar, but today’s call was dubbed, “Stop Megacycle!” referring to a 10-to-11 hour overnight shift that workers say Amazon has implemented in several facilities.
Leading the protest is a strong corps of organizers, Amazonians United Chicagoland, who refer to themselves as a “solidarity union.” (They’re under the umbrella Amazonians United, which has chapters in Sacramento and New York, as well as an international coalition.) The Chicago group organized in 2019 around the now-shuttered warehouse DCH1. Following theirs and nationwide protes
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