Amazon workers speak on the Alabama union vote
Amazon workers in Alabama and across the United States are speaking out about the ongoing union certification vote at the Bessemer, Alabama facility. Nearly 6,000 workers are voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), with ballots due on March 29.
Amazon is notorious for its exploitation of workers around the world, including half a million in the US. This is underscored by the tragic suicide of 48-year-old Paul Vilseck, who jumped to his death at the LAS7 fulfilment center in North Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday.
Inside an Amazon warehouse (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Postal worker in Chicago dies in apparent suicide in mail truck
Tweet about the suicide from an account tracking police scanner activity (@ChicagoScanner)
At 10:20 p.m. Monday, @Chicago Scanner, a Twitter account that posts frequent updates of police radio activity, tweeted, “Female mail carrier hanged herself in the back of the mail truck.” The tweet was in response to a question from another user, who had posted images of emergency vehicles and a mail truck outside their apartment, asking, “Have you heard anything around Belmont/Elston? This is outside of my apartment right now. There’s police tape up too and at least 5-6 cop cars.”