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HAPPENING NOW: Amazon workers & local unions picket the company’s San Bernardino warehouse, the largest Amazon hub in the region. Today workers begin striking to demand $5/hr raises, safer conditions. Organizers tell me they expect a third of shift workers to walk out around noon

Demanding $5/hour raises, safer conditions, and protection for retaliation for organizing, Amazon workers and their allies are blocking an entrance to the company’s San Bernardino warehouse

Workers from many industries — steelworkers, UPS drivers, grocery store workers, and many more — have joined the strike in solidarity, and there’s tacos for the workers from Cocino Rosita de Olivo restaurant in Highland, CA

Workers at Amazon Air’s west coast warehouse in San Bernardino will walk out in a few minute to demand pay increases and an end to retaliation against worker organizing

Amazon opened its San Bernardino warehouse in March of 2021 and by the end of the year workers had already successfully organized to regain wages lost when the company abruptly closed temporarily in December

There are around 1400 workers at Amazon Air in San Bernardino. In June around 800 signed a petition calling for $5/hour pay increases. The company offered increases of about 80 cents, exclusively to night shift workers, and on August 15 around 150 workers walked out in protest

During the heat wave last month temperatures hit 121 degrees for outdoor workers at Amazon’s San Bernardino campus, and workers struggled to get the company to comply with CalOSHA regulations around heat safety, like providing breaks and access to water

Workers gave Amazon until October 10 to comply with their demands of $5/hour wage increases and an end to retaliation — the numbers of union busters at the warehouse has recently increased, as has their surveillance of workers

Amazon workers’ demands have not been met so they are walking out of work today to a crowd of cheering supporters

Amazon workers are on strike.

Amazon workers demand higher wages and an end to retaliation. “We demand respect and we are rowdy!”

speaker from Warehouse Worker Resource Center says workers around the globe are on strike to let Amazon know that workers deserve better

Teamsters rep says this is historic and all organized workers are so impressed and proud of the courage of Amazon workers

“We are struggling to pay rent and we work for the biggest corporation in California” #AmazonStrike

Amazon workers were offered $1 raises but they say it’s not enough. “And the first check after I got it that raise, they doubled the price of my benefits so my check was lower”

Because Amazon workers at the San Bernardino warehouse filed unfair labor practice charges — re retaliation against worker organizing — with the NLRB, legally they can’t be fired or “permanently replaced” for striking. But they could be temporarily locked out

Amazon workers and their allies say they’ll be out here on the picket line all day, late into the night, and tomorrow morning, to support workers continuing to walk out and to be there in case of a lockout

I’m heading out for now but will soon share more background and updates on the #AmazonStrike. This has been @hasrra18 tweetin

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