How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s surveillance machine

Re:How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s survei... by AlbertCory on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:16PM (#36017406)

This kind of thing is really why unions came to be in the late 19th - early 20th century.

> It was these conditions that fueled a raft of organizing efforts in Amazon facilities across the U.S., including the nation’s first successful union drive at a company warehouse in New York last year.

The question not answered here is: why don't the Minnesota workers form a union? State legislation is fine as far as it goes, but the Legislature is not going to have a place for workers to file a grievance, or a strike fund (probably) to support them if they do go on strike.

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Re:How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s survei... by bequanna on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:31PM (#36017497)

I believe they tried and Amazon is now planning to close the fulfillment center where most of the Somalis mentioned in this article work.

It will be interesting to see if Amazon and others try to shift some operations a short drive across the river to Wisconsin as a result of this legislation.

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