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Amazon workers walk off the job in Joliet
Chicago Sun Times ^ | Oct 11, 2022 | David Roeder

Posted on 10/12/2022 6:52:52 AM PDT by Salman

Amazon employees at an important distribution hub in Joliet walked off the job Tuesday, calling attention to their demands for higher pay and new workplace safety rules.

The walkout by some employees on the day shift was timed to disrupt the retailer’s operations during its Prime Day promotion, which lasts Tuesday and Wednesday. It was part of a national pressure campaign, supported by pro-labor groups, that included job actions near Atlanta and a walkout planned Friday in San Bernardino, California.

Organizers said more than 600 workers in Joliet signed a petition demanding that the company raise base hourly wages to $25. Amazon has said it has raised average starting pay for warehouse staff to $19 an hour. The workers also are demanding a more robust company response to death threats directed at Black employees that they said were posted in an employee washroom last May.

Cesar Escutia, a warehouse associate for about three months at Amazon, said a manager was dismissive about the threats despite widespread employee concerns. Escutia also said his hourly wage is $18.50.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; strike; union; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Nifster
High pressure jobs? Most of these panty waists are slackers. They ain’t on the battle field or in the PD or an ICU nurse. Those are high pressure jobs

I have a high pressure job.

I'm usually in my underwear doing computer development.

It's brutal.

41 posted on 10/12/2022 8:22:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Inspectorette

So how is the Oregone governor’s race going in your area and then the state?

Thanks


42 posted on 10/12/2022 8:34:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Salman

Good luck with walking of the job with Amazon.

They will just close that distribution center and work around it.

UPS, FedX. USPS and ???? want that business and will do whatever needs to be done to get it and to keep it.

In this part of N. California, Amazon is delivering about 1 out of 3 to 4 orders


43 posted on 10/12/2022 8:43:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Salman

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/27/23281681/amazon-workers-eeoc-complaint-racist-death-threats-illinois

Amazon isn’t the only company facing accusations that it’s failed to stop racism at some of its facilities. Tesla has faced multiple lawsuits from employees about its factory in Fremont, California, and has reportedly paid out millions in settlements relating to racial discrimination at the plant.


44 posted on 10/12/2022 8:48:21 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Lazamataz
“US-conservaTIVE-Get-the-HELL-outta-there-BEfore-they-reQUIRE-exit-VISAS-and-a-big-TAX-to-leave-FUR-reelz”

Workin' on it. Getting my two boys relocated to Tennessee in early November. Once they're gone, I finish up two small projects in the house, put it on the market and I'm outta here.

Retiring early. I'm no longer going to be a tax slave. I'm going to be one big pain in the ass to this out of control government of ours.

So you keep working, and thank you for my monthly check!

45 posted on 10/12/2022 8:54:21 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative
So you keep working, and thank you for my monthly check!

Hey, if I generated the cash for you, I'm entitled to a piece!

97% should cover it.

O! I forgot. I'm not your ex-wife!

46 posted on 10/12/2022 9:00:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Topeekeegeeyoungee park
Yeah, we just call it TY park


47 posted on 10/12/2022 9:15:23 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz. You are the exception that proves the rule

😉😉


48 posted on 10/12/2022 9:55:36 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: kelly4c

My daughter was finishing her NP during the worst of the pandemic. Trying to get her guilt levels down was a daily task

She’s now an NP and got hooked up with a great family practice

Shout outs to all nurses. You are da bomb


49 posted on 10/12/2022 9:58:09 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: kelly4c

My daughter was finishing her NP during the worst of the pandemic. Trying to get her guilt levels down was a daily task

She’s now an NP and got hooked up with a great family practice

Shout outs to all nurses. You are da bomb


50 posted on 10/12/2022 9:58:10 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Lazamataz
O! I forgot. I'm not your ex-wife!

Thank God Almighty for that because you damn' sure ugly!

51 posted on 10/12/2022 10:50:52 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Lazamataz

I pronounce “Chicago” like this:

Chicongo.


52 posted on 10/12/2022 11:09:47 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (I thank my God that I won't get what I deserve.)
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To: Salman

The funny part is that this is a fulfillment center, meaning by walking off the job, all they have done is made sure their grandmothers don’t get their new portable oxygen bag or new external catheter until this weekend. Schadenfreude.


53 posted on 10/12/2022 11:14:44 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"Average American:

“I don’t care about the worker! I just want my STUFF - like, TODAY!”

Average Amazonian:

"Yassuh, mistuh Bezos, shore did like that d*** pic of yours on the cover of '14 Leadership Principles Reasons I Use To Sort Out And Only Hire Employees That Have No Idea Of Their Intrinsic Economic Value'."

54 posted on 10/12/2022 11:41:04 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Lazamataz
Really? Going commando is much more high pressure, believe me.

If Amazonians ever figure out how simple tech work is once you have mastered code or a secondary skill like PM or Scrum, we will be putting on pants again. It's so hard to find the latter I ain't holdin' my breath, or laundering anything critical.

55 posted on 10/12/2022 11:47:32 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Nifster

Do those people pee in jars so they don’t get hassled for bathroom breaks? There is a reason Amazon is always hiring...


56 posted on 10/13/2022 3:49:40 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Keyhopper

Now you’re just making stuff up. ;)

As a native Wisconsinite, even THAT beats some of our made-up-sounding places!


57 posted on 10/13/2022 6:08:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: StAnDeliver

Exactly.

If the lock-downs and job losses taught us anything, it’s that ‘We The People’ are NOT going to just bend over and take what employers dish out, anymore.

And here our ‘betters’ thought it would make us more compliant. ;)


58 posted on 10/13/2022 6:10:18 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Grampa Dave
Good morning Grampa, interesting governor's race here. History-making, no men running at all, just three white women. Rabid lib Kotek, washed-up Johnson, and Christine Drazan. It's gonna be a tight race, Christine is leading right now, but I'm worried about a last-minute steal where Johnson drops out and her votes go to Kotek. That would be another Oregon disaster. If Johnson stays in until the bitter end, Christine wins.

As you know, it doesn't matter much what most of the states want, Portland-Eugene dominate. It's a long shot for Christine, but crossing fingers and praying.

59 posted on 10/13/2022 7:33:30 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Inspectorette

“Hopefully, Christine Drazan, will win. That is tough in Oregone with the Portland/Eugene area votes,real and not real but counted.”

For close to 2 decades we have seen pseudo California moderates/conservatives move to Oregone and become liberals apparently overnight. The reality was/is simple, they had never been moderates/conservatives. They lied to everyone until after they moved to your state.

The latest flip flopper is an adopted 40+ something daughter of conservative friends, who moved to a liberal area outside of Portland. She told her parents and adult kids, that sheeg was still a conservative. On her last trip home to California, she forgot to remove her Kotek bumper sticker. She is now a liberal teacher and dating a very liberal guy.

One of our conservative and younger relatives here in California has kept track of so called conservatives in California moving to Oregone and becoming full fledged liberals in their move to Oregone.

He knows of one, who reversed the role and became a conservative horticulturist in the Grants Pass area after moving to your state.

A conservative couple we knew, who moved to the Medford area for second careers have returned to the Chico area as their area before the fire had become liberal before the fire.

Hopefully, we will see a Republican Governor in Oregon, after your election.


60 posted on 10/13/2022 8:16:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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