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Friend, HUGE NEWS: Workers at seven Amazon facilities have gone on strike!(1) For two years, the billionaire owners of Amazon have refused to make a union contract with members of the Amazon Labor Union. Now they can’t ignore these workers -- especially when they’ve walked out during the busiest season of the year.
Amazon is treating its employees worse than ever before -- too often leaving them broke, injured and sick -- and blatantly disregarding American labor law. Amazon workers are twice as likely to be injured on the job as other warehouse workers.(2) And when they do get hurt, they’re too often silenced, denied adequate medical care, and discarded by the world’s richest corporation.(3) This summer, the Amazon Labor Union joined forces with the Teamsters, and they gave Amazon a deadline to come to the table. Amazon missed that deadline, so the workers have walked out. The average pay for an Amazon is about $20 an hour, and they need to be able to sustain their families throughout this strike. Amazon Labor Union has started a fund to do just that. Will you chip in to help those workers -- and Courage California’s work to stop Amazon’s shady anti-union tactics once and for all? Thank you for being with us. –Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the Courage team)
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