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Dear John,
Yesterday, over 150 Amazon workers walked off the job at a warehouse in San Bernardino, CA — a nerve center of the corporation’s supply chain — taking public their struggle for fair wages, safe conditions, and respect.
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With support from our affiliate the Warehouse Worker Resource Center [[link removed]] , hundreds of workers at the company’s San Bernardino Air Hub (KSBD) are organizing for better wages and conditions — and winning. They have already secured a small pay increase for night shift workers and made managers turn on the A/C in the blazing heat (temperatures regularly soar above 95 degrees).
Now, more than 800 workers have signed a petition calling for higher wages, additional protections against the blazing heat (especially for people who work outside), and an end to retaliation. Amazon refused to meet these demands, so the workers walked out. Now they’re launching a new group, Inland Empire Amazon Workers United [[link removed]] .
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Learn more: three worker leaders share their stories in The Washington Post [[link removed]]
KSBD is one of three Amazon “air hubs” in the US, and the Inland Empire is a key battleground in the fight to rein in the corporation’s abusive treatment of workers, communities, and our planet. Amazon has over 36 warehouses and other facilities in the area, and it’s the largest private employer in the region. While the corporation’s profits have soared, it pays low wages to the predominantly Brown and Black people who keep it running — and pumps pollution into the surrounding neighborhoods from its trucks, trains, and planes.
Workers and community members have been united in fighting back. Before the air hub opened, people packed public hearings to raise concerns about poverty wages and poor air quality. This sparked more organizing, and over seven cities in the area have since proposed or passed bans on new warehouses.
IE Amazon Workers United are at the forefront of a new worker and community-led movement, and their vision for quality, safe jobs has the power to transform the region.
Here are two ways to support these workers:
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taking
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conditions;
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had
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cut;
been
terminated;
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retaliated
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when
speaking
out
to
change
illegal
and
unsafe
working
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Lauren Jacobs [[link removed]] In solidarity,
Mariah Montgomery
National Campaigns Director
PowerSwitch Action
1305 Franklin St.
Suite 501
Oakland, CA 94612
United States
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