The struggle of workers at Amazon’s JFK8 facility in Staten Island, New York, is at a turning point, and a different strategy is necessary to wage an effective fight against the trillion-dollar company.
A worker in the facility’s single pack department describes the exhausting work, low pay, poor benefits and company surveillance that persist despite workers’ vote for the Amazon Labor Union in 2022.
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The strike follows the announcement of the mass sacking of 8 percent of Amazon’s global workforce last month as part of broader cutbacks in the technology sector.