Friend,

This headline is amazing: “Amazon faces biggest union push in its
history.”(1)

The mega corporation is on the verge of facing a vote to unionize in its
Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse, and if the workers are successful, it could
set off a domino effect in warehouses across the country.

But Amazon isn’t going down quietly -- it’s leveraging its billions of
dollars to fight union efforts in the courts and in its facilities.
Courage California is joining the effort for Amazon’s workers’ rights --
are you in?

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate to Courage California and help protect the rights of
Amazon’s warehouse workers?

In Amazon’s warehouses, people work ten-hour shifts, with closely
monitored bathroom breaks and lunch breaks that aren’t long enough to
actually eat warm food.(2)

And that’s just the beginning of Amazon’s worker abuses. The Federal Trade
Commission just ordered the company to pay more than $60 million in
restitution for pocketing delivery drivers’ tips.(3) The company just
started pushing some workers into "mega-cycle" shifts from 1:30am to
11:50am. And Amazon relies on hiring short-term, fixed-contract employees
so it can skirt worker protection laws and to prevent workers from
unionizing.(4)

We realize that Amazon is a major convenience for people, with its two-day
shipping and the fact that the retailer sells everything from tires to
organic oranges. But that doesn’t mean the corporation gets to abuse the
people who make this convenience possible.

The average person spends $600 a year on Amazon, and Prime members spend
an average of $1,400 -- that’s a ton of purchasing power that can be
turned into a lot of needed grassroots pressure.(5)

Here’s what we want to do next:

* Join with workers' rights organizations to leverage our Amazon work
with theirs and increase our grassroots power
* Hold a town hall on Amazon’s worker abuses to raise public awareness
of where their dollars are going
* Work with state and municipal legislators to hold Amazon accountable
for its worker abuses

The corporate giant owns 23 warehouses in California, more than anywhere
else in the country, so we are in a unique position to get the corporation
to change its practices. But we can’t do it without you, our supporters.

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate to Courage California today?

Yours in the fight against corporate abuses,

Irene, along with Angela, Annie, Caitlin, Deepthi, Jay, Lindsay,
LisaMarie, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team)

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