The Amazon workers’ Black Friday protests and the strategy of global class struggle
Amazon workers took part in protests in more than 20 countries on Friday and last weekend, during the Black Friday shopping event.
Tom Hall•
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The International Amazon Workers Voice, published by the World Socialist Web Site, serves as a platform to link Amazon workers in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America in a unified fight for workers' rights and socialism.
Amazon Labor Union holds strike vote at JFK8 facility in New York
A resounding vote in favor of a strike must be followed by the organization of a rank-and-file committee through which workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center can wage a successful struggle.
Erik Schreiber•
Canada Post strikers must unify their struggle with all logistics workers to stop the “Amazonification” of our jobs!
Instead of participating in a race to the bottom against low-paid, precariously employed delivery workers, we must turn to these workers and fight to rally them alongside us, for a joint struggle, based on our common class interests for well-paid and secure jobs for all.
A striking Canada Post worker•
Amazon Labor Union leadership election marked by abysmal turnout
With the ALU and the Teamsters offering no strategy against Amazon, workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, must seize the initiative in their struggle against the retail giant.
Erik Schreiber•
Joshua Rodriguez•
Andy Thompson•
Trévon Austin•
Elliott Murtagh, Philip Guelpa, Tom Hall•
Erik Schreiber•
Build rank-and-file committees at all Amazon facilities!
The International Amazon Workers Voice is assisting workers in the building of a network of interconnected rank-and-file committees of Amazon and logistics workers, as well as autoworkers, educators, and workers in other key sections of industry.
Fill out this form to join the committee nearest you. If a committee at your workplace does not exist, we will help you build one.
Whatever the outcome of the RWDSU re-vote, workers face the urgent necessity of establishing independent, rank-and-file organizations to fight for their interests.
Australian rank-and-file educators support striking Woolworths workers
“We say from bitter experience that to avoid yet another sell-out, you need to take matters out of the hands of the UWU bureaucrats.”
Our correspondents•
Berlin transport workers election: How to conduct the struggle against the trade union Verdi
The result of the recent Berlin Transport Company (BVG) staff council election in Berlin has revealed the extent of opposition to the public service union Verdi.
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Trade unions’ isolation of Canada Post strikers facilitates government-backed concessions drive
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has left strikers isolated on picket lines, while the Canadian Labour Congress has remained entirely silent on the strike and the attacks on postal workers’ democratic and social rights being prepared by the Liberal government and Canada Post management.
Our reporters•
Communication Workers Union embraces Kretinsky’s takeover of Royal Mail
The call by the CWU for “engagement” is a blueprint for a surrender document Mark II, not a call to arms for postal workers.
Tony Robson•
A striking Canada Post worker•
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