Photo: Ross D. Franklin (AP)
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