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Between Feb 8, and March 29, approximately 6,000 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union. The harsh working conditions at Amazon warehouses, along with Amazon’s refusal to adopt measures that protect workers from COVID 19, have pushed Amazon and Whole Foods workers every- where to step up organizing and fighting back.
These predominantly Black Amazon workers, who have in recent months formed the BAmazon Workers Union, are on the cusp of launching a history-changing workers organization against one of the biggest and most powerful transnational corporations in the world, and its super rich union busting owner, Jeff Bezos. In addition, these workers are standing up to the racist, anti-union laws that suppress labor across the south. No matter what the outcome of the vote, this fight for a union in Alabama is already rocking Wall Street and energizing a much nee
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BRATTLEBORO â Brattleboro will join anti-war, Yemeni and humanitarian activists all over the world when they come together for an International Day of Action on Monday.
Vermonters are following the lead of senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy to stop U.S. participation in the war in Yemen, which the United Nations has declared the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. The local gathering will underscore the importance of this issue to Vermonters and encourage legislators to continue their endeavors in this area.
President Joe Biden, prior to his election, agreed to discontinue American support for the Saudi Arabian war on Yemen; advocates urge him to follow through on this promise.