Category: New Day at Amazon

The logistics industry is built on two things: speed of delivery and cheapness of labor. In this century no company has pushed both farther than Amazon, and the price has been paid by its workers. Nowhere is this clearer in the recent case of a 46-year-old tote runner at Amazon’s PDX9 warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon,…

This is why we propose the formation of Workplace Defense Committees! Amazon is going to continue to sit on their hands. They will not protect or grant the demands of immigrant workers without us putting up a fight. We will have to organize committees for the defense of our coworkers. The goal of these committees…

We are glad to share this important report on work conditions during peak season from the New Labor Organizing Committee-affiliated shop organization New Day at Amazon. To reach out to them, email newdayatamz@proton.me. This last December, a New Day at Amazon-led shop committee at an Amazon Delivery Station in Ohio organized a walkout at the height…

This last December, New Day at Amazon led a shop committee to organize a walkout at a Delivery Station. Peak season, when many Amazon workers are forced to work up to 60 hours (and while against Amazon policy but sometimes pressured to do more), finished up last month but Amazon workers weren’t sitting on their…

In our last article, we introduced our first draft of demands. So far we have received pretty positive attitudes towards them. Now the question is how to achieve those demands. Unity on a path forward, for us workers at Amazon, is the heartbeat of our success. It is one thing to have demands and want…

This is why we want to introduce our First Draft of Demands for a New Day at Amazon! We want the everyday Amazon worker to know change is possible. We deserve it and Amazon can easily afford it! While they are very much up for change, criticism, and suggestion we feel strongly about these minimum…