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Athena Coalition

Aug 15 • 5 tweets • 6 min read

@IEAmazonWorkers

Meet Melissa Ojeda, Daniel Rivera & Sara Fee.

Just now: They are part of 160 @IEAmazonWorkers workers in work stoppage and walk out from @Amazon's gigantic air hub holding up the western region of their logistics!

#AmazonHurts 1/x

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@ieamazonworkers

@ieamazonworkers @amazon As the very first coordinated action from an Amazon air facility, this action boldly escalates the fight for demands @Amazon workers are making across the country:

✊🏽 fair pay
✊🏿 safe, healthy workplace
✊🏻 end to retaliation for unions

2/x #AmazonHurts

warehouseworkers.org/wwrc_campaigns…

@Amazon

This means the vast majority of the current shift have just walked out.

They make up about 11% of Amazon workers in this critical @Amazon facility.

It comes on the heels of 3 deaths of Amazon workers in just 3 weeks in New Jersey.

3/x #AmazonHurts

And after 6 deaths during #AmazonTornado in Edwardsville, Illinois, Amazon's failure to keep those workers safe in path of infamous Tornado Alley, and its inaction, to this day, to make those workers safer from future disasters.

4/x #AmazonHurts

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@LaurenKGurley

Full story of the walkout here by @LaurenKGurley and @ceodonovan.

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