Amazon Plays Dirty With Harsher Union-Busting Tactics

After the successful unionization of Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, the company is trying harder than ever to bust potential unions at other Staten Island warehouses. Madeline Wesley, the ALU’s treasurer and a worker at the LDJ5 warehouse in Staten Island has described the new tactics as “really dirty” as Amazon reportedly is using bigoted lies and rumors to drive internal division between workers. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/04/amazon-warehouse-staten-island-ldj5-union-drive

“The company has billed itself as the everything store. Now Amazon is the throw-everything-at-them union buster — trying every trick in the playbook to throttle worker organizing at its Staten Island warehouses in New York City.

The union vote at a second warehouse, a neighboring sorting center known as LDJ5, is set to start April 25, so the company has turned its focus there.

“All those union busters that were there to union-bust eight thousand workers at JFK8 have walked across the street and are in our little building of 1,600 people,” a visibly shaken Madeline Wesley, who works at LDJ5, told reporters at a press conference last week. “They’re really fighting us, and they’re playing really dirty.”

Wesley is the treasurer of the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon has reportedly blamed her for the suicide of another worker.

She said management has also been condoning bigotry to drive a wedge between workers.

“They’re spreading racist lies about [ALU president] Chris [Smalls], per usual,” she said. “They’re spreading sexist lies about me, trying to undermine my authority as a young woman involved with the union.

“Anti-union workers have been throwing homophobic slurs at us,” she added. “It’s a war in there.”"

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