Amazon Labor Union's president wore a jacket with 'Eat The Rich' on it while meeting Biden today...

[SleezyBigSlim]

Gonna be pist if I find out this brother is funded by cacs, hope this is legit

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

what did the french do their rich?

Do tell

 

[Aquarius Snake]

Holmes look like Cam

My woman said the same thing when we watched his interview.

Is there a good video/article breakdown on the history of this guy and his movement? I have been seeing him pop up every now and then, next thing he is with the president. Is he pushing for legislation?

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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Senate Democrats join with Republicans to vote down Bernie Sanders' effort to stop outsourcing

As part of a series of votes on Wednesday, a majority of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to block an effort by Bernie Sanders to stop corporations from outsourcing U.S. jobs and preventing workers from forming labor unions.

Wednesday's vote was one of 28 addressing non-binding motions to instruct conferees on a science and research bill, dubbed the "United States Innovation and Competition Act" (H.R.4521), which was introduced in the House of Representatives last year. The bill would, among other things, provide future funding for semiconductor manufacturing but also attempts to address the COVID-10 pandemic by hitting main areas of a longtime complaint by Republicans, like the prohibition of federal funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology and addressing China's "influence on institutions of higher education." It also imposes sanctions on China over cybersecurity concerns as well as human rights abuses while upping foreign aid for countries in the Indo-Pacific region. While debating the bill in the Senate, twenty motions were bought by Republicans, while just eight were filed by Democrats.

One motion, filed by independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, was blocked in an overwhelming fashion. The rejected motion would have blocked semiconductor manufacturers that would receive funding from H.R.4521 from outsourcing jobs located in the U.S. and preventing staffers from unionizing. Every single Democrat in the Senate objected to Sanders' motion, with the exception of Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.

Sanders' motion comes as the U.S. faces an unprecedented semiconductor shortage as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns.

Democrats in Congress are also currently pushing the PRO Act, a federal effort to expand labor protections. On Thursday, labor organizers from Amazon went to the White House to meet with President Biden after their successful drive to form a workers' union in New York.

 

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The Biden administration has re-awarded a massive $10 billion federal contract to Amazon, even as the president is facing mounting pressure to fulfill his promise to halt such contracts to companies that refuse to remain neutral in union elections. The contract decision came as Amazon responded to its workers’ first successful union drive by busting the organizing drive that followed.

At issue is Biden’s 2020 promise to “ensure federal contracts only go to employers who sign neutrality agreements committing not to run anti-union campaigns.”

Amid revelations of Amazon’s aggressive efforts to shut down a union drive among its workers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind.-Vt.) last month sent a letter to Biden “asking you to fulfill that promise… to make sure that federal dollars do not flow into the hands of unscrupulous employers who engage in union-busting, participate in wage theft, or violate labor law.”

A day later, Nextgov reported that Biden’s National Security Agency (NSA) ratified a $10 billion cloud computing contract for Amazon, which hired the brother of Biden’s top aide as a lobbyist days after the 2020 presidential election. The contract for the company’s web services division is codenamed “Wild and Stormy,” and is distinct from another massive Pentagon cloud contract on which Amazon is also currently bidding.

A few days after Amazon received the NSA contract, the Amazon Labor Union lost its second union election bid by a 2-to-1 margin at another Staten Island warehouse, after Amazon mounted a furious campaign to halt the organizing drive.

In effect, while Amazon was doubling down on its union busting, the Biden administration was delivering a massive federal contract to the company, signaling to Amazon executives that he is so far not interested in fulfilling his pledge to use the government’s purchasing power to be “the most pro-union president.”

Meanwhile in Congress, lawmakers are advancing legislation that could give Amazon new tax breaks and give $10 billion to company founder Jeff Bezos’s space company. Most Democratic senators also voted Wednesday to reject a measure from Sanders demanding that tech companies that receive government subsidies remain neutral in union elections.

Doubling Down On A Disputed Contract
Amazon first received the NSA contract from the Biden administration last summer, months after Biden pledged to make such deals contingent on union neutrality. But the contract was soon challenged by Microsoft, which alleged that its own competing proposal had not been properly evaluated.

In the interim, Biden could have signed an executive order to rescind such contracts for employers that do not remain neutral in union elections — but he has declined to do so.

Now, his administration has gone a step further, ratifying the lucrative contract even as Amazon has been making international headlines trying to stop union drives at the company, as well as fielding allegations that it has been violating labor law in the process.

The details of Amazon’s contract — and the dispute — will remain classified, due to an exemption in public records laws for national security.

A Refusal To Wield Enormous Purchasing Power
Biden’s contract pledge underscored how much power federal, state, and local governments have in creating fair conditions for union elections. Major corporations rely on those governments for contracts and subsidies, giving public officials the power to make that money contingent on companies treating workers fairly.

The Amazon Web Services deal is a case in point. That division, which oversees its government contracting, fuels the company’s overall profits. Indeed, the company received double the amount of operating income from the division— $18.53 billion — as from the rest of its sprawling North American operations. If Biden — and state governments — predicate their contracts on Amazon remaining neutral in union elections, it would force the company to choose between union busting and massive profits.

That was the core of Biden’s 2020 campaign pledge.

“Today, I am renewing my request to President Biden to fulfill that promise,” Sanders said Thursday at a Senate hearing. “In my view, however, the time for talk is over. The time for action is now. Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon who repeatedly break the law. No government — not the federal government, not the state government, and not the city government — should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters and labor law violators.”

Also on Thursday, Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls reported that during a White House visit, Biden had told him that Smalls had “gotten [Biden] in trouble.”

Biden was likely referring to his statement in April to a union group where he said “Amazon, here we come” — a statement that Press Secretary Jen Psaki walked back almost immediately.

 

[Reflected]

My woman said the same thing when we watched his interview.

Thanks, and WTF at robots firing employees on metrics...

Amazon’s automated system tracks every second of its worker’s days — warnings for under-performance are auto-generated when too much time has been spent “off task.”

If a worker receives six warnings within a 12-month period, Amazon lawyers have confirmed that the employee will then receive an automatically generated termination notice.

Amazon warehouse workers are getting fired by robots

The system goes so far as to track “time off task,” which the company abbreviates as TOT. If workers break from scanning packages for too long, the system automatically generates warnings and, eventually, the employee can be fired. Some facility workers have said they avoid bathroom breaks to keep their time in line with expectations.

Amazon says retraining is part of the process to get workers up to standards and that it only changes rates when more than 75 percent of workers at a facility are meeting goals. The bottom 5 percent of workers are placed on a training plan, according to the company. An appeal system is also part of the termination process.

How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’

It's like they want to be dystopian about things. I remember watching the situation in Birmingham, AL, regarding unionization in response to the harsh demands. The vote failed, but it was insane to see Amazon's approach to the matter, they were creating bot facebook and twitter accounts, using AI generated faces and even actual people's photos to pose as workers from the area that were in support of stomping the union efforts.

Pro-union workers hope this means a new outcome after last year's landslide loss, in which 71% of voters opposed unionization. Hundreds of employees did not vote in the original election.


A timeline is set for a new unionization vote at an Amazon warehouse.. (Right click > Icognito if paywall or magnolia1234 / Bypass Paywalls Chrome Clean · GitLab for paywalls in general)

People were so certain the vote would be easy but you learn real quick how McCarthyism has worked its way into the average family in America and that has been passed down to this day. Is it just insane to watch people reject labor rights and the ability to negotiate with employers. But they went and did it even with all the complaints of the trash conditions at that warehouse, there were legit horror stories.

And there was another vote in Bessemer, Alabama for unionization following the rejection in Birmingham that had similar results: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/31/amazon-workers-in-alabama-reject-union-for-second-time.html

It's hard to get any labor movements going when the laborers can not accept the fact that they are being exploited to any degree. Couple it with that mindset and Amazon's ability to deploy propaganda both indirectly through algorithms and directly to employees both off and on site and you will realize these improvements will likely need to come top down, as the workers typically aren't in the position to make the best decisions for themselves, as crazy as that might sound. At the very least we need to be tackling these new union busting approaches that some of these companies take, Walmart is another one, America's largest employer, these companies have the money to dump into finding legal loopholes for these things so we need a modern approach to handling this.


But it's still nice to see people actually getting individuals organized for efforts like this, dealing with labor rights in America is just a pain to follow at times.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Guy will get rich off the fame and no longer really be for the workers.

Look at this damn devil right here. Nothing a black man does is ever good enough, but he always seems to find a way to excuse the insane behavior of alt-right racist folks.

And he got dapped by another devil, that trifling @Thavoiceofthevoiceless

On the one hand, they'll complain that no one is trying to do anything. Then when they see a black man making moves and getting access to the President and other people who can put the spotlight on them to help them get more support, they complain about that.

Man, I hate fools like y'all.

 

[Will Ross]

Look at this damn devil right here. Nothing a black man does is ever good enough, but he always seems to find a way to excuse the insane behavior of alt-right racist folks.

And he got dapped by another devil, that trifling @Thavoiceofthevoiceless

On the one hand, they'll complain that no one is trying to do anything. Then when they see a black man making moves and getting access to the President and other people who can put the spotlight on them to help them get more support, they complain about that.

Man, I hate fools like y'all.

He no longer in the position to truly relate to workers. You think he is going back to a hr waged job?

 

[old pig]

Yes..

dope!

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

That Lindsey Graham clip really summed everything up. He straight up sounded like a board member defending his company.

Because he very likely is a share holder. Most of these politicians are. Their savings are tied up in the stock of these companies and they are the backup plan if they get voted out. They have a personal financial interest in making sure these companies are as dominant and profitable as possible.

There's no political will to make them divest or put their stocks in a blind trust. Its like when the police investigate themselves.

The age of direct action needs to come back. I'm not talking about blocking traffic on a road with a protest, I'm talking protesting at these politicians homes. I'm talking refusing to serve them if they pull up to your business or harassing them when they're having dinner at a restaurant you eat at. Booing them at public events. They should know that they're hated every single time they step foot outside their homes. Bots should call their offices every 20 minutes tell them how pathetic they are and remind them exactly how they've betrayed the people they claim to serve. Automated emails blowing up their email addresses with emails every 5 minutes with detailed points for exactly how they've fukked people over and what they need to do.

I see this coming back in my lifetime because people are seeing how people with power continuously refuse to exercise it for the greater good. People are tired of the bullshyt and want action.

Salute to the breh for refusing to wait for them to regulate Amazon. Hes working together with his colleagues to build momentum and thats whats up. When I even think about what we were taught in school I don't remember them talking at length about what labor unions and workers fought and died for. Thats by design. They don't want kids growing up understanding worker rights or the real power labor unions have had in this country and how it was systematically dismantled by the fusion of state and corporate power.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Protect the guy so he won't even up like Jimmy Hoffa lord.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Look at this damn devil right here. Nothing a black man does is ever good enough, but he always seems to find a way to excuse the insane behavior of alt-right racist folks.

And he got dapped by another devil, that trifling @Thavoiceofthevoiceless

On the one hand, they'll complain that no one is trying to do anything. Then when they see a black man making moves and getting access to the President and other people who can put the spotlight on them to help them get more support, they complain about that.

Man, I hate fools like y'all.

You and this alt-right racist rhetoric that you keep bringing up breh. For whatever reason, I have no clue why. Must be losing your mind again. Anyways, I have no qualms about saying why I dapped the post.

Power and position corrupts and you're naive as hell if you think there isn't the possibility that it won't corrupt him and he will go against the same people that he was championing for. It happens all the time. I admire what he's doing, but let's see if he keeps on that path when the higher ups come calling to get him on their side with the power and influence. It's the exact reason why people are insane for saying that he should work in a high level position for Amazon because what do you think will happen especially when Amazon is doing everything that they can to suppress workers and their power.

If you have a problem with what I said, then oh well. You're lucky I haven't been able to post in days or else I would have responded sooner.