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Dec 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Horrifying details are emerging about the tornado disaster at Amazon's warehouse in Illinois, where at least 6 workers were killed on the job.

Before he died, Larry Virden reportedly texted his girlfriend: "Amazon won’t let us leave." He leaves behind four children.
29-year old Clayton Cope rushed to save the lives of his co-workers and warn them about the tornado. He was killed when the warehouse collapsed.

"At least I did get to say I love you," his mother told the local news.
The disaster calls into question some of Amazon's key business practices.

Only 7 of 190 people working at the facility were full-time staff.

Amazon’s dependence on contractors allows them to avoid liability for accidents and undercut union organizing.
nytimes.com/2021/12/12/tec…
Amazon workers are also decrying the company's ban on people carrying their phones on the job, leaving them unable to get updates or contact people during emergencies.

"After these deaths, there is no way in hell I am relying on Amazon to keep me safe."
businessinsider.com/amazon-workers…
Amazon workers are demanding change and accountability. This is Darryl Richardson, one of the leading organizers of the effort to unionize Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama:
Amazon executives sent “thoughts and prayers” to its warehouse workers while forcing them to work through a deadly tornado.

Why didn’t they send Amazon workers home and out of harm’s way?
Amazon has repeatedly forced its workers to keep working through life-threatening natural disasters.

"This is another outrageous example of the company putting profits over the health and safety of their workers," said Stuart Appelbaum of @RWDSU.
45 people were rescued from the Amazon facility in addition to the 6 who lost their lives.

OSHA has now opened an investigation into the fatal warehouse collapse.
cnbc.com/2021/12/13/osh…

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BREAKING: Over 4,000 Volkswagen workers in Tennessee just joined the @UAW in a landslide.

They’re the first American workers to win a union at a non-union car company in decades.

This historic victory will change the auto industry, and the future of American labor.
This isn’t the first time workers at the Chattanooga VW plant have tried to unionize.

Workers tried to organize a union at the Chattanooga factory two previous times — in 2014 and 2019 — and both times they lost by narrow margins.
But this time was different. After the huge wins from the @UAW’s strike at the Big 3, workers at the Chattanooga plant rushed to join the organizing committee.

Then, a supermajority of Volkswagen workers signed union cards in just 100 days.
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Apr 15
BREAKING: The Justice Department plans to sue Live Nation/Ticketmaster for running an illegal monopoly over the ticketing industry.

This corporate monopoly charges too much for tickets, exploits venues, and hurts fans and artists.

The antitrust lawsuit is expected within weeks.
The suit "could spur major changes at the biggest name in concert promotion and ticketing," WSJ reports.

wsj.com/business/media…
We've spent years covering how Live Nation/Ticketmaster uses its dominance to punish and steal from ticket buyers, artists, and indie promoters.

More than 50k people signed our petition for the DOJ to investigate this monopoly:

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-t…
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Apr 9
THREAD: Subway used to have $5 footlongs, now it’s “$6, six inches”. The McChicken used to be $1, now it's almost $3. Taco Bell’s Beefy 5-layer burrito was $0.89 in 2009, now it’s $3.69.

Fast food companies want to blame inflation or the minimum wage going up. It’s all a lie. Chart showing the price increases at every fast food place going up significantly faster than inflation.
2. From 2014 to 2024, inflation rose 31%. Only 30 states have a minimum wage above the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, which hasn’t changed since 2009.

In that time the biggest fast food chains raised prices much, much faster than inflation.
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Even the companies that didn’t double prices still raised them at least 39%.

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Mar 28
THREAD: Boston University is so determined to union-bust its own students that they’re proposing replacing grad workers with AI.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Engage generative AI tools to give feedback or facilitate 'discussion' on readings or assignments
Unionized students at BU (@gradworkersofBU) are on strike, demanding a fair contract with a living wage.

But instead of bargaining in good faith the university has engaged in consistent retaliation.
So the union has been forced to file multiple unfair labor practice charges against their school.

The charges include:

-Coercive Statements

-Coercive Rules

-Refusal to Bargain/Bad Faith Bargaining (incl'g surface bargaining/direct dealing)

-Changes in Terms and Conditions of Employment

And more: nlrb.gov/case/01-CA-338…
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Mar 13
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The company will not even disclose which people did the work.

Is Boeing just a complete criminal enterprise?
The NTSB says that Boeing is blocking it from getting all the information it needs.
abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-over…
The Department of Justice has also launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines plane this January.
apnews.com/article/boeing…
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THREAD: After two-and-a-half years @SBWorkersUnited and Starbucks have announced a “path forward” to reach collective bargaining agreements for over 300 union stores and thousands of workers.

It’s a huge development in one of the nation’s most high-profile organizing campaigns.
Since the first Starbucks store in Buffalo voted to unionize in December 2021, more than 380 stores have voted to unionize.

But in the time since, Starbucks has refused to bargain with the union.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, for example, said in 2022 that the company would “never engage with the union.”

Schultz stepped down as CEO last March and retired from the company’s board in September.

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