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DESCRIPTION:Between Feb 8, and March 29, approximately 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers 
 in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting by mail on whether to be represented 
 by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU). The harsh 
 working conditions at Amazon warehouses, along with Amazon’s refusal to 
 adopt measures that protect workers from COVID 19, have pushed Amazon and 
 Whole Foods workers everywhere to step up organizing and fighting 
 back.\n\nThese predominantly Black workers who have in recent months formed 
 the BAmazon Workers Union, are on the cusp of launching a history-changing 
 workers organization against one of the biggest and most powerful 
 transnational corporations in the world, and it's super rich union busting 
 owner, Jeff Bezos. In addition, these workers are standing up to the 
 racist, anti-union laws that suppress labor across the South.\n\nSolidarity 
 from every corner of the labor and progressive movements is needed now to 
 show the workers in Bessemer that they are not alone, that all eyes are on 
 the historic struggle that they are leading. This is especially needed as 
 Amazon ramps up their union-busting tactics.\n\nThe Southern Workers 
 Assembly has issued a call for a National Day of Solidarity with Alabama 
 Amazon Workers on Saturday, February 20. Actions are being planned across 
 the South and the U.S. on that day at Amazon facilities (warehouses, 
 distribution centers, Whole Foods, etc.).\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/15/18840068.php
SUMMARY:February 20: National Day of Solidarity With Alabama Amazon Workers
LOCATION:Assemble at the Walmart Hilltop Mall Parking lot by 3:45 pm (1400 Hilltop 
 Mall Rd, Richmond, CA 94806)\n\n(Please decorate your cars with posters and 
 signage that state any combination of words: \nBessemer *  Amazon * 
 Solidarity * Unions * #CAstandswithBamazon *\n\n We will then drive at 4:00 
 pm together around to the other side of the Mall which Amazon now occupies. 
  We will circle the mall in solidarity with Bessemer Amazon Union!\nSupport 
 Alabama Amazon Workers - Richmond stands in solidarity with the Amazon 
 workers in Alabama!\nThis Black History Month, join the national day of 
 solidarity with Alabama Amazon workers on Saturday, February 20. We are 
 supporting the efforts of Black workers in the anti-union south to organize 
 what may become the first U.S. union of Amazon workers. Amazon is doing 
 everything it can to sabotage the efforts of the BAmazon Union ; we must 
 show our solidarity and support the Alabama Amazon worker’s demand for 
 change with RWDSU!\nJeff Bezos who also owns Whole Foods has more than 
 profited off the lives and deaths of Amazon workers across the country, 
 while those workers struggle to survive and work with dignity in the face 
 of a global pandemic. We believe an injury to one is an injury to 
 all.\nCome out Richmond and show Amazon/Whole Foods that we will always put 
 workers’ rights and people before capitalism’s culture of convenience 
 and corporate profits! A successful union drive in Alabama will light a 
 fire under other organizing efforts in the US and around the world.\nCheck 
 out the national website for the Support Alabama Amazon Workers! 
 https://supportamazonworkers.org/feb20/\nLocal Facebook Event Page:    
 https://www.facebook.com/events/486143169216131\nPlease wear a mask and 
 observe social distancing during this event.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/15/18840068.php
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