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Friend --
JOIN
US FOR #BAMAZON UNION VOTE
SOLIDARITY EVENTS IN NC AND ELSEWHERE ON MARCH
20!
Over the past several weeks,
North Carolina Green Party and many other Green locals and states have
been active in supporting the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon warehouse
worker vote to organize under the representation of the Retail,
Wholesale Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU). This potentially
historic campaign, nicknamed “Organize #BAmazon”, began as a bold
effort by predominantly black workers who first formed the “Bamazon
Workers Union”; it is the first Amazon unionization vote in over six
years and could become Amazon’s first organized facility in the United
States. A “YES” vote victory would have a tremendous symbolic impact
and could change momentum in the largely unorganized US South by
showing everyday people, nationally and internationally, what truly is
possible when workers unite.
On Sat., Feb 20, several NCGP members participated in
#BAmazon Solidarity actions coordinated by the Southern Workers
Assembly outside of Amazon warehouses in Charlotte, Kernersville
(Triad), Raleigh, Durham and elsewhere. We held signs and participated
in distributing flyers to Amazon workers about the Bessemer warehouse
vote during their shift change. In general, the Amazon employees who
stopped to take flyers were extremely receptive, and many were unaware
of such unionization efforts, particularly in the South. Weather
willing, we will be out at these facilities again on Saturday Mach
20.
During the height of the pandemic, while millions of
frontline employees were working in extremely dangerous conditions,
many becoming infected with Covid-19, top-paid white collar employees
were overwhelmingly allowed to work from home and Jeff Bezos was
making an average 13 million dollars an hour. In fact, on more than
one occasion, Bezos raked
in 13 billion dollars in one day. While the vast
majority of the world has been dealing with the fallout from the
pandemic and the greatest global recession since the Great Depression,
the 660 richest billionaires have added over a trillion
dollars to their wealth.
Realizing the threat of employee revolt in the face of these
gross injustices, Amazon has moved to hire spy
firms such the onerous Pinkerton security corporation
as well as the most sought after union
busting firms. They even convinced local
government to
change stoplight timing near the warehouse to discourage pro-union
activity.
The NC Green Party abhors this unsustainable inequity driven
by a profit system that is holding back the further advancement of
humanity and threatening the very future of our planet and its
inhabitants. NCGP stands with and officially endorses the #BAmazon
Workers unionization movement and we urge Greens and people everywhere
to do the same and to proudly JOIN
THESE NATIONWIDE EVENTS as greens and fellow workers (or organize
your own!) #OrganizeTheSouth
NC AMAZON UNION SOLIDARITY
EVENTS ON MARCH 20:
Events are planned for Kernersville,
Durham, and possibly Asheville
****DURHAM INFO****
1pm Rally Meet at 1pm and
Park at 2945 S. Miami Blvd Shopping Center, Durham, NC
1:30pm –
Rally at 1805 TW Alexander Dr, Durham,
NC
https://www.facebook.com/events/863176694248402
****KERNERSVILLE
INFO****
KERNERSVILLE 5:30pm Rally - ARRIVE BY 5PM or
have someone or an uber drop you off at the rally point - the walk
from parking is a good 10-15 mins. (park in Triad
Park and walk straight up Old Greensboro Rd)
Amazon Warehouse,
1656 Old Greensboro Rd, Kernersville, NC 27284
NC Green
Party
http://www.ncgreenparty.org/
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