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DESCRIPTION:MONTEREY: Picketing in Solidarity With Alabama Amazon Workers 
 Unionizing\n\n10am – 12pm Picket\n\nWhole Foods: Gather in front of Del 
 Monte Shopping Center on Munras\n@ 800 Del Monte Center, Monterey, CA 
 93940\n\nContact Monterey County Supporters of Bessemer Alabama at 
 vpvhprince@gmail.com \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/2021/02/19/18840152.php
SUMMARY:Monterey Picket Protest in Solidarity With Alabama Amazon Workers Unionizing
LOCATION:Whole Foods: Gather in front of Del Monte Shopping Center on Munras @ 800 
 Del Monte Center, Monterey, CA 93940\n\nMASKS & SAFE-DISTANCING
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/19/18840152.php
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