Amazon Arrested a Union Leader. Fight back!
Can you split a donation to help Amazon Labor Union cover these costs and keep up the fight against Amazon’s union-busting?
Sultana is not alone. Amazon workers and organizers across the country have been arrested over the years. Just this past December, the police locked arms to disrupt picket lines, threatened mass arrests, and dragged an Amazon driver from his van and arrested him in Queens.
Amazon’s relationship with the police goes far beyond arrests during organizing drives or strikes. The police are involved with Amazon’s day-to-day business practices to the level where the relationship is the subject of serious academic research.
From a report from Rutgers University:
Amazon’s engagement with local police helps to subdue workers and enforce an organizational
culture of near-carceral obedience - what amounts to a “militarization” of human resource
functions… routine police surveillance combined with Amazon’s own internal surveillance via digital and other means has led some Black workers to describe the Amazon fulfillment center as a jail and/or a modern plantation that makes them feel like "slaves". “It feels like we’re coming into prison, and they’re trying to make sure we don’t escape,” said one worker. “It’s like we’re being watched... To me, [it’s like] you’ve got the slaves out there, and then they’re policing them.
This is what the workers organizing Amazon are up against. Not just inhumane working conditions and the threat of retaliation from Amazon, but also police surveillance and the looming threat of arrest over simple, legally protected actions like walking a picket line.
Stand with Amazon Labor Union against retaliation, threats, and the use of arrests as a union-busting tactic. Make a donation today to fuel their fight for a safe and humane workplace and to help with the legal costs incurred by these retaliatory arrests.
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