“We can barely afford to live in today’s economy,” the petition said. In the petition, employees said workers making $17 per hour and working 40 hours per week take home about $2,200 per month, but the average rent in California is $1,700 and the average in San Bernardino is $1,650, “meaning that over 75% of our income is going to rent alone.” In July, workers submitted a petition calling for pay increases during Amazon’s Prime Week sales event, saying their wages are not enough to live on in Southern California. “Depending on their shift, our full-time employees can earn up to $19.25 an hour and receive industry-leading benefits including healthcare from Day 1, 401(k) with 50% company match, and up to 20 weeks paid parental leave.”Īmazon officials are continuously listening to concerns and looking at ways they can improve, he said, adding that the company provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and an “engaging, safe work experience.” “We are proud to provide full-time employees at our San Bernardino Air Hub and throughout the region a minimum starting wage of $17 an hour,” Flaningan said. Paul Flaningan, an Amazon spokesperson, said the company respects employees’ right to make their opinions known outside the workplace and that there were “many established ways” that workers can voice concerns internally. Amazon has forced us to work in extreme heat, barely paid us enough to afford rent, and now we are being retaliated against for speaking up.” “Amazon promised the Inland Empire quality jobs,” organizers said in another Facebook post. Of the more than 200,000 warehouse workers in the region, 1 in 5 work at Amazon facilities. In Staten Island, Amazon warehouse workers at JFK8, the city’s largest warehouse, will vote in person on whether to unionize later this month.Amazon is the largest private sector employer in the Inland Empire, organizers said. In Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon warehouse workers at BHM1 are currently voting in a mail-in ballot re-election on whether to unionize. The strike coincides with a surge in organizing at Amazon warehouses around the country. “I’m walking out because I do need the money, and at the same time, it’s bigger than that: I want to make sure people are getting what they deserve and what they’re working for.” As soon as you get there, it never stops,” he said. “To be honest, with the amount of work, that’s not enough. He supports his mother and disabled father in Rego Park, Queens. Mukesh Patel, a 23-year-old Amazon warehouse worker in Long Island City who walked off the job Wednesday morning, earns $17.25 on the “megacycle” shift. We got nothing during peak, but they doubled our volume in our warehouse. I have a co-worker who hands out Aleve every day. People are hurting themselves on this job. “First of all, we have a Nordstrom warehouse across the street that starts at $19 an hour,” she said. “I make $16.90 after a year and a half of working here,” said Linda, an Amazon warehouse worker at DMD9, who struck on Wednesday morning, saying that workers were demanding a raise for myriad reasons. to noon-walked out of the warehouse at 6 a.m. The petition included a similar set of demands, and the strike on Wednesday, they say, is an escalation of the petition.Īt an Amazon warehouse in upper Marlboro, Maryland, known as DMD9, which serves the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore metro area, 30 workers-which is more than half of the so-called “megacycle” shift that runs from 1 a.m. The multi-warehouse strike follows a petition drive in December organized by the same group of workers, known as Amazonians United, an independent worker-led group, which has a presence in at least nine Amazon warehouses nationally.
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