[Amazon warehouse workers at the company’s JFK8 facility on
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Union. Is this not glorious? ] [[link removed]]

HEARTWARMING: AMAZON EATS SHIT  
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Laura Wagner
April 1, 2022
Defector.com [[link removed]]

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_ Amazon warehouse workers at the company’s JFK8 facility on Staten
Island made history today, voting in favor of the Amazon Labor Union.
Is this not glorious? _

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[Additional reporting on this epic union win against Amazon here
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Well well well well WELL! Amazon is a union company.

Amazon warehouse workers at the company’s JFK8 facility on Staten
Island made history
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voting in favor of the Amazon Labor Union. With 2654 votes for the
union and 2131 against, the warehouse becomes the first unionized
workplace in the company’s history. It’s astounding that a group
of current and former warehouse workers, who are unaffiliated with any
existing labor unions, came out on top against one of the world’s
most powerful corporations. It’s all the more shocking when you
consider the lengths Amazon went to in its attempts to prevent this
exact outcome.

In recent months, Amazon tried to overwhelm workers with anti-union
messaging
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held captive audience meetings
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convince them to vote against the union, hired an influential
Democratic consultant
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produce anti-union materials, told workers that the union organizers
are “thugs
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and sent the NYPD to arrest organizers
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trespassing when they showed up to deliver lunch to workers on break.

The company and its leading flacks have also pushed back against
criticism of how Amazon, whose profits doubled more than 200 percent
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the pandemic, treats its warehouse employees who have to deal
with grueling hours
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lack of paid sick leave
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and dangerous
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Last year, in what has to be the biggest “epic clapback” fail in
living memory, Amazon mocked a congressman for highlighting the fact
that Amazon employees have been forced to pee in bottles while
working.

(Amazon managed to outdo itself a week later when it wrote an entire
blog post
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that its workers are, in fact, forced to pee in bottles while on the
job.)

Top Amazon flack and former Obama administration lackey Jay Carney
even put himself out there on multiple occasions to defend the honor
of a trillion-dollar company whose workers are, as the company
unequivocally admitted, forced to pee in bottles while on the job.
Here’s Carney, ever the consummate smarmster, piping up in
“confusion” to defend Amazon’s decision to fire union organizer
Christian Smalls after he organized a walkout to demand safe COVID-19
working conditions.

Around this same time, Amazon was discussing plans for how to
discredit Smalls and his effort to organize the facility.
Vice reported on leaked notes
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an internal Amazon leadership meeting in which company execs talked
about how to smear Smalls, who they called “not smart or
articulate,” as part of a PR strategy to make him “the face of the
entire union/organizing movement.” Smalls, along with current Amazon
worker Derrick Palmer, are two of the leaders
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Amazon Labor Union.

Here was Smalls on Friday after the vote:

Is this not glorious? Does this not bring a happy little tear to your
eye? Does is not make you want to yell, _HELL YEAH FUCK YEAH EAT
SHIT JEFF BEZOS_ _WOOOOOOOO!_

Amazon is handling the news as can be expected, saying in
a statement 
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“disappointed with the outcome of the election in Staten Island”
and that it may file objections based on activities they witnessed in
the election. It did not specify which supposed actions it objected
to, though it is clear that the Amazon reps who were on site during
the ballot counting did not have a good time.

Here’s hoping that the workers who won today’s vote have a
fantastic weekend, and that the Amazon executives and flacks who did
everything in their power to stop a union from forming, but failed
spectacularly for all the world to see, continue to drink mad water.

_Laura Wagner [[link removed]] is a staff
writer for Defector.com._

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