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DESCRIPTION:RICHMOND: Car Caravan in Solidarity With Alabama Amazon Workers 
 Unionizing\n\n4 PM Car caravan and rally\n\nGather at Walmart at Richmond 
 Hilltop Mall Parking Lot, 1400 Hilltop Mall Rd, \nRichmond, CA 
 94806\n\nContact Aleta Toure at aleta@alum.mit.edu\n\nMASKS & 
 SAFE-DISTANCING \n\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\nBetween 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 every- where 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 its 
 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_____________\n\nSAFETY DURING COVID-19\n\nMasks & Social 
 Distancing is Required at All Times\n\nIf you have the following symptoms, 
 please DO NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 
 but have these symptoms, please refrain from in-person 
 actions:\n--Fever\n--Shortness of breath\n--Cough\n--Headache\n--Loss of 
 smell or taste\n\nCDC: Older adults and people who have severe underlying 
 medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at 
 higher risk for developing serious complications from COVID-19 
 illness.\n\nCDC COVID-19 link: 
 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html\n_____________ \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/18/18840131.php
SUMMARY:Richmond Car Caravan: Solidarity With Alabama Amazon Workers Unionizing
LOCATION:Gather at Walmart at Richmond Hilltop Mall Parking Lot, 1400 Hilltop Mall 
 Rd, \nRichmond, CA 94806\n\nMASKS and SAFE-DISTANCING
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/18/18840131.php
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