Thread by @AUchicagoland

We became a union by fighting. It’s a process, not a moment. Amazon workers don’t need a business union like RWDSU to misguide us. We don’t need someone to represent us. We speak and fight for ourselves, collectively. Don’t despair or wait to be saved, WE are our union.

Unionizing is a process in motion when workers meet to formulate petition demands and a plan to get the majority of coworkers signed on. It's happening when coworkers join collective actions against management and hand out Amazonians United newsletters during break.

We’re unionizing as we develop a feeling of family between ourselves, as we gather for barbecues and kickbacks, as we help each other out during times of need.

That electricity in the air after we roll up on a manager, making him nervous by delivering our petition and expressing our demands as a group, bringing him down and us up . . . that feeling is our union, a real workers’ union, coming into being.

We’re building a real union, not some business union aka a dues-extracting org of pseudo-lawyers for workers to call. We’re not handing our collective power over to some bureaucrat who shows up every 3 years to “negotiate” a shitty contract through backroom deals with our bosses.

We don’t need the recognition of the NLRB or Amazon to form our union, grow our union, or fight as a union. Our union is us workers, organized, acting collectively, building unity, growing in solidarity, fighting as one.

So what is it going to take to unionize Amazon? It’s going to take perseverance, humility, and struggle. It’s going to take many workers with a deep commitment to organizing spread throughout Amazon facilities, forming OCs that tackle issues that resonate with coworkers.

Every time we win a change through organizing, coworkers see the power of acting collectively. This is how we begin workplace-wide transformations from the standard individualistic mindset to a collective mindset.

By starting up our organizing and fighting against Amazon's bullshit we create a culture of militancy where we’re all putting our incompetent managers in their place instead of bowing our heads to their disrespect.

Each organizing committee, committed to the principles of Amazonians United, is the foundation of our union, and we grow from there, collectively developing our strategy and vision as we go.