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Amazon Driver Quits Mid Shift on Twitter
Working for Amazon has always been bad, but in recent months it seems to have gotten even worse. UCOMM previously reported about walkouts at warehouses, like in Staten Island, NY, over the company...
Amazon VP Quits over Union-Busting
At the end of March, two weeks into the quarantine in New York City, Amazon employees at their Staten Island warehouse held a walkout to protest the company’s negligence in protecting the...
Target and Amazon Workers Strike
After periodic walkouts and sickouts over the past few weeks, workers at two of the nation's biggest companies are taking action on May Day. While job actions often take place on May 1st, also...
Podcast: A Union Boom after COVID-19
Glen Casey calls in to talk about NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Steve LeVine of Medium calls in to talk about how America is about to witness a huge growth of...
America Could See the Biggest Labor Movement in Decades
This post was written by Steve LeVine. Steve was on this week's UCOMM Live. Listen to his interview by clicking here. In September 1945, a little-remembered frenzy erupted in the United States...
Companies Use COVID-19 Pandemic to Attack Workers
Last week, UCOMM reported on companies that are stepping up to help build PPE, produce hand sanitizer, and ramp up production for ventilators. While the pandemic has brought out the best in these...
Leaked Amazon Document Details Plan to Smear Fired Worker
On Monday, Amazon workers in Staten Island held a walkout to protest the company's failure to protect them on the job. On Tuesday, Amazon fired the organizer. Vice has now gained leaked notes...
Amazon Fires Worker for Organizing
Let’s clear the ambiguity: America is at war, a total war against an invisible enemy that threatens all of us, regardless of age, ideology, class or creed. This enemy, of course, is COVID-19,...
Amazon: Give Paid Sick Leave to Warehouse Workers
As more and more states move towards limiting the number of people who can work outside of the home, they are also asking people to stop heading out for non-essential shopping. This means that more...
This Week's Top Ten: Worst CEO's
UCOMM has launched a series of Top Tens on our YouTube channel. Last week we released the Top Ten Things Trump has Done to Hurt Labor. This week we released the Top Ten Worst CEO’s in America...