Category: Shop Papers

  • USPS Peak Season Report

    USPS Peak Season Report

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    Published in: New Day at USPS Mail Handler Assistant Injured in Charlotte The November edition of New Day at USPS  reported on the tragic deaths of Russell Scruggs Jr. and Nick Acker, two postal workers who were killed in separate, preventable incidents tied directly to USPS’s neglect of worker safety in its push to speed up holiday-season…

  • Amazon Workers Walk-Out and Win! & A New Year and another New Day at Amazon

    Amazon Workers Walk-Out and Win! & A New Year and another New Day at Amazon

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    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…

  • Long Hours Kill: State Unionism or Class-conscious Unionism?

    Long Hours Kill: State Unionism or Class-conscious Unionism?

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    Whatever happened to the 8 hour workday? Once again, Flyspace pushed us to work extremely long days last month on Light Up Night. Full-timers were working more than 15 hour days, going until 4 AM in some cases, then returning only a few hours later to work another marathon shift until dawn the next day.…

  • Starbucks Strike Committee Platform

    Starbucks Strike Committee Platform

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    By: The Organization of Class-conscious Service Workers (OCSW) Since Brian Niccol became the Chairman and CEO ofStarbucks, bargaining between SBWU and the company hascome to a standstill, with the new leadership refusing tocontinue bargaining. Since that time, there has been all sortsof talk of the upcoming SBWU strike response to once andfor all obtain a…