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TODAY: well, technically yesterday, a bunch of Amazon drivers went on strike to demand Amazon bargain with them. I covered this.
Amazon then sent me an email asking me to not call them Amazon drivers.
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An NPR reporter was fired over his "offensive" stand-up comedy routines. An arbitrator said, actually, the jokes are funny, and ordered him to be reinstated.
A cautionary tale about the boundaries of remote work (and the jokes are pretty good too):
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NOW: @Harvard is hosting an event for its grad students to sign up for federal food assistance. You know, because it doesn't pay them enough.
@hgsuuaw grad student union pres. @kljungz told me about it this morning:
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BREAKING: SEGA of America workers have voted to unionize 91-26, forming the first multi-departmental video game union in U.S. history.
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NEW: former Twitter employees sued the company for firing them with no advance notice and no severance pay, a lawsuit filed on Thursday claims. this is apparently the second Musk-owned company to fire people with no notice this year. #TwitterLayoffs
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The original headline does say "Amazon delivery drivers," though, that's the problem. Amazon complained about that headline saying "Amazon drivers," which it doesn't. Amazon is the one who conflates those terms. Hope this helps!
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This is the story in question, if you're curious: vice.com/en/article/z3mm5x/a…
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For clarity: this guy was a reporter on the NPR show "The Pulse" and the doc lists his boss as the host of that show, so even though he was employed by a local station, "NPR reporter" is I think an ok shorthand for a limited-character tweet. (This is also clearer in the piece!)
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Nope my bad you guys are right— I did not realize there was a difference between an NPR member station and an affiliated-with-NPR station. Piece has been updated (though X will not change the img), sorry for the confusion!
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TODAY: SCOTUS ruled 8-1 that companies can now sue striking unions for "sabotage" if the strike costs the company any money.
That greatly weakens the right to strike, and sets a precedent for companies to basically combat strikes however they want.
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BREAKING: Amazon drivers who unionized with the Teamsters in April are on strike right now demanding that Amazon stop violating labor law and come to the bargaining table.
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BREAKING: after 46 days on strike, @SBWorkersUnited workers at the NYC Roastery are returning to work. they've achieved acknowledgement of health risks from management, as well as a contract bargaining date TOMORROW.
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TODAY: workers at a Starbucks-Amazon combo store in Times Square have filed for a union election, making it the first store of its kind to do so. @SBWorkersUnited
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NOW: Amazon drivers just unionized with the
@Teamsters. This is a huge deal—it's the first time the Teamsters have had direct organizing contact with Amazon, and one of the first driver-specific organizing efforts.
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TODAY: New York is orange from wildfire smoke, and people are encouraged to stay inside. But what if you had to work outside in it all day?
Well, delivery drivers have to. This is what it's like. vice.com/en/article/epvvv7/d…
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Scoop w/ @neuwaves: NVIDIA is matching employee donations to charities supporting West Bank settlements and the IDF.
Matched funds for charities in Gaza were instead returned to employees, promoting over 60 workers to bring the issue to management.
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NEW: a federal cease-and-desist order filed against Amazon on Friday demands the company stops firing its workers for unionizing. @amazonlabor
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NEW: photos of Amazon union-busters in Albany show them dressing up like workers to blend in on the warehouse floor. @amazonlabor @SethGoldstein13
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BREAKING: YouTube Music workers are on strike against Google for refusing to bargain with them, even after the NLRB affirmed twice that it counts as an employer.
We got the email that Google sent the union telling them it wouldn't come to the table. vice.com/en/article/k7zn5y/g…
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Today: California OSHA cites Amazon for exposing workers to dangerous heat conditions, including not giving them enough water and also having them take their state-mandated shade breaks by standing under a plane.
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SCOOP: two workers at #ALB1 were told by management that their Unpaid Time Off would be deducted if they served as union election observers—something which ALU lawyers say is in violation of the election agreement. @amazonlabor
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BREAKING: the @FTC proposed a new rule today that would ban non-compete clauses, which currently prevent workers from joining competing companies once they leave their job.
It estimates that the rule would increase workers' yearly earnings by $300 bil.
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Today: Tesla has said it won't be signing on to any collective bargaining agreement in any country. But Tesla workers in Sweden are on strike, and Tesla workers in Germany won a pay raise.
Here's what that could mean for a Tesla union in the U.S.:
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TODAY: a Microsoft-contracted quality assurance testing company laid off an entire 160-person team because they began organizing, a new ULP alleges. Microsoft has a standing labor neutrality agreement with the union:
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I finally get to do the ~personal news~ thing: I'm the first @404mediaco fellow!! Please start sending me emails, I've missed getting emails. (and thank you to everyone here for having me :) )
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Today: Elon Musk dropped Grok, an AI designed to get info on current events from posts on X. But it also states incorrect information about the war in Gaza and says Pizzagate might have been real.
Please read, I subbed to Premium for this:
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BREAKING: around 100 workers @CNET are unionizing with @WGAEast in response to the company's layoffs and undisclosed use of AI to write pieces, which they say "threatens our jobs."
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TODAY: a slew of posts on Reddit show DoorDashers begging customers for extra tips—which is bad, but makes sense, given that DoorDash pays them around $2/delivery.
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TODAY: it's Starbucks's Red Cup Day and @SBWorkersUnited are on a massive national strike. #redcuprebellion
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NOW: the ALU has renewed its demand for bargaining and recognition from Amazon after it was certified last week. if the company does not abide, the union will seek a federal court bargaining order and sanctions, lawyer @SethGoldstein13 told me.
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SCOOP: Amazon paid at least two union-busting consulting firms specifically to prevent its drivers from joining the Teamsters in 2022, according to DoL filings—even though it argues that it does not employ them.
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NEW: in lighter news today, one man has set out to change how dismissively we use 'lol,' with a device that only lets you type 'lol' if you're actually laughing out loud. many thanks to @lanewinfield:
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BREAKING: YouTube Music contract workers just unanimously won a union vote, 41-0. They'll join the @AlphabetWorkers union.
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Huge corporations like Meta and SpaceX keep arguing that the public institutions holding them accountable (FTC, NLRB) are "unconstitutional." I spoke to legal experts to find out: why now?
(guess what, it's the supreme co—)
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BREAKING: the @NLRB just certified the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon is now under a legal obligation to bargain with the ALU, nine months after workers at JFK8 first won their election. @amazonlabor
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also, this, because you just can't get enough news: vice.com/en/article/m7gkw8/t…
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TODAY: I got my hands on the Teamsters contract with the Amazon DSP that unionized two weeks ago. Here's what's in it:
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TODAY: in the first strike ever by Google-affiliated workers, YouTube Music contract workers are going on strike this afternoon protesting a Return-To-Office policy they say is "threatening" their livelihoods.
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NEW (unfortunately): every day, something else happens on this lovely website. Elon Musk banned multiple journalists who have covered him critically.
from @neuwaves: vice.com/en/article/v7v89b/t…
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BREAKING: quality assurance workers at Microsoft's ZeniMax Studios just won their union election.
The union will represent over 300 people—that makes it the biggest in the industry. with @emanuelmaiberg:
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The best part in my opinion? The one dissent was because actually, since this is a labor dispute, the NLRB historically takes precedence, and SCOTUS had no business sticking its nose in the case at all.
But here we are. vice.com/en/article/n7eejg/s…
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meanwhile, the "activists" trying to "destroy free speech in america" aren't buying ads with Musk, and he's upset about it: vice.com/en/article/93a8jd/e…
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NEW: the U.S. Dept. of Labor said it is prepared to fine Amazon over $60k in penalties after an OSHA investigation reported the company was "failing to keep workers safe." vice.com/en/article/jgpz4p/d…
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TODAY: @SBWorkersUnited workers at the NYC Roastery enter their 17th day on strike, and will hold a rally in the afternoon.
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NEW: the @TraderJoesUnite bargaining effort is underway, and TJ has hired Nicole Buffalano to represent it.
Buffalano represented Amazon in Gerald Bryson's termination case—which resulted in a federal order to Amazon to stop firing people for unionizing. vice.com/en/article/qjkmgp/f…
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An Apple manufacturing facility in Santa Clara is misclassifying its hazardous waste and has more than a dozen other “potential violations” of environmental regulations, according to an EPA report. Here's the rundown of what they found: 404media.co/california-apple…
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"you can't give a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet, and yet you claim that hateful content is high" dude do you remember every tweet you read ....
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BREAKING: OSHA issued citations against Amazon for violating labor law and workplace hazards for the second time in two weeks—it has now sent hazard alert letters to 6 warehouses across 5 states. this investigation's scope is "unprecedented."
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TikTok's new AI-generated avatars of real people can help brands build "real and human connections" with consumers. The FTC said not to do things like that just last week: 404media.co/tiktok-introduce…
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THIS WEEK: unionized Trader Joe's workers will be having their first bargaining session on Nov. 3-4.
that's workers from locations in Hadley, MA—and also Minneapolis, who would have to fly out to MA on their own dime to join the bargain. @TraderJoesUnite
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NEW: for the last month, unions have been setting France on fire in protest to Macron's pension reform. Over three million people have shown up to their strikes.
I wanted to find out: What do French unions have that we in the U.S. don't?
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BREAKING: the game devs at @SEGA, who publish Sonic the Hedgehog, are unionizing.
They're asking for better base pay, better paths for promotions, and voluntary recognition by the company:
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NEW: Prison comms company Securus Technologies "inadvertently" deleted all of incarcerated journalist @ChrisWBlackwell's draft emails, where he was storing years worth of reporting work.
Story here: vice.com/en/article/4a3b8n/y…
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NEW: workers at Amazon's #JFK8 warehouse — the first #Amazon warehouse to ever unionize — held the first sit-in strike in company history last night after a fire broke out and they were not allowed to go home.
@amazonlabor
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Amazon policy doc shared by @LorenaSGonzalez yesterday says Amazon had “cultivated” a SoCal mayor because it was facing “significant reputational challenges” in the area for “build[ing] facilities in predominantly communities of color and poverty.”
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The NLRA, which protects the right to strike, has existed since 1935—but this is the latest in a series of right-led rollbacks of labor law. For example, last month, the Iowa Senate voted to loosen child labor protections.
SCOTUS leans right 6-3.
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NEW: i talked to #UPS workers about what it's like working in (and getting sick from) extreme heat conditions. these are some of their horror stories.
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The bike lock that the NYPD is currently fangirling over as an "industrial" protest tool is actually recommended by (and was recently sold by) the Columbia University Public Safety dept
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most entertaining use of tiktok for political activism i've seen in a while. (i wrote this, go read it it's really good!)
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New: the LAPD is using controversial mass surveillance tracking software that allows them to monitor individual geolocation signals. Software contract costs $200k per year.
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Breaking: UAW announces mammoth campaign to organize around 150,000 workers at Tesla, Toyota, and 10 other companies. This comes after the union's organizing successes at the Big 3 and Tesla labor organizing in Europe:
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TODAY: Footage of drivers from Amazon's in-van AI surveillance cameras is being leaked on Reddit, even though Amazon promised that the cameras were only there for safety purposes.
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TODAY: VFX workers at Walt Disney Pictures have filed for a union election, making them the second group of workers in the industry to ever do so.
The first was Marvel VFX workers, three weeks ago.
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TODAY: DoorDashers in NYC are suing DoorDash for wage theft, saying the company locked them out of their accounts after an NYC law required it to pay them weekly.
via @clauirizarry @THECITYNY thecity.nyc/2023/8/2/2381665…
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I love journalists so much this is the funniest thing I've seen all summer rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Do you remember how hard it was to get a PS5 when they first dropped? It's about the same for Amazon workers to get time off work. So a couple have built bots to game the system:
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New: Russia bans Wikipedia in favor of smaller, censored Wikipedia that makes it look better
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NEW: eBay has its first union. @TCGPlayer authentication center workers voted to unionize on Friday, 136-87. @TCGunionCWA
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TODAY: the FTC sues Amazon over "manipulative" Amazon Prime enrollment process and "labyrinthine" cancellation process—so arduous, in fact, that it's named after Homer's Iliad.
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NEW: Boston University students booed Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav during his commencement speech. Zaslav tried to tell students to get along with "difficult people" —they told him to "shut up" and "pay [his] writers."
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the best part about Amazon's peak season? its workers aren't getting holiday pay (like they did in years prior), despite working 55-hour weeks. vice.com/en/article/wxna3q/g…
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NEW: @GeicoUnited filed new unfair labor practice charges against @GEICO on Saturday, citing unlawful threats by the company.
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NEW: after petitioning Google's CEO, Alphabet contract workers will now finally be paid $15/hr— which has been the company's standard minimum wage since 2020.
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TODAY: workers at the NYTimes are on a 24-hr strike protesting the company refusing to meet their union demands.
don't cross their picket line. there's a #Wordle alternative today—and the solution is pretty satisfying.
from @chloexiang: vice.com/en/article/3adwvb/p…
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TODAY: Visual effects workers at Marvel Studios have formed the first union in the industry's history, voting unanimously (32-0) to join @IATSE.
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TODAY: thousands of unionized Google contract workers finally won a pay raise after a fight that lasted for months. their new pay rate is still less than $15/hr. @AlphabetWorkers
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TODAY: @KathyHochul signed into law the Warehouse Protection Act, which will protect warehouse workers from "unlawful work speed quotas". this is a major step for NY's Amazon workers, who have been fighting for protection since 2021. @amazonlabor
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starbucks workers at the Roastery first went on strike in late October, protesting black mold and bedbug sightings—as well as avoidance by the company to come to the bargaining table. vice.com/en/article/pkgx7y/s…
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damn i had one more story in the chamber.
This was my first journalism job! I had such a wonderful time. Thank you everyone at Vice whom I look up to so so much. I don't know what happens now, but until I do, thank you for reading. :)
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NOW: Amazon drivers in Colorado have filed a class action lawsuit against the company for wage theft and discrimination, and because its performance metrics are so "inhumane" that they have to pee in bottles.
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New: An iconic queer nightclub's staff unionized. Then, the club closed forever. Here's what went down at Berlin Nightclub Chicago. vice.com/en/article/5d9q4q/b…
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Amazon is now the third company to argue that the NLRB (which is investigating numerous charges of anti-union retaliation made against it) is unconstitutional. It joins SpaceX and Trader Joe's in doing so.
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NEW: the ALU finally got NLRB-certified last night, which means Amazon has a legal obligation to bargain a contract with them, and can face serious penalties if it refuses to. @amazonlabor vice.com/en/article/jgpz58/a…
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these independent consultants were hired by Amazon specifically to persuade ALB1 workers not to join the ALU. and they're paid $3,200 a day.
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NEW: #Amazon delivery drivers are STILL peeing in bottles 18 months after the company first acknowledged its problem and said it would do something about it. drivers say Amazon has done nothing.
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NEW: just two days after filing for a union election, TCGPlayer workers filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge claiming that management is unlawfully surveilling their organizing. #ebay #nlrb #tradingcards
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TODAY: eBay has removed the clause in its human rights policy that guarantees support for unions. NYC and NYS comptrollers want to know why.
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TODAY: SAG-AFTRA files an unfair labor practice charge against Universal Pictures for retaliating against workers on the picket line—first by ushering them into construction, and then by trimming the trees that provided them shade, without a permit. vice.com/en/article/ak37v8/s…
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There are a lot of factors at play here—the first being that the French have way better labor laws than we do.
Unions have the right to sectoral bargaining, which means that everybody benefits regardless of union membership. vice.com/en/article/epvdwa/w…
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You guysss, look it's my first BIG feature!
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NEW: two former Amazon employees used their positions as warehouse managers to siphon almost $10 million from the company, the U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges.
Here’s how: vice.com/en/article/7kxzdq/h…
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it started out as a sauce. how did it end up like this? it was only a sauce...
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EXCLU: a Long Island town was going to sell its school park to become an #Amazon distribution center—until the @Teamsters and community activists shut it down.
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NEW: workers at Amazon's KSBD air hub announced yesterday that they plan to strike on Friday of this week, citing "intimidation" by the company and unsafe heat-related working conditions. @ieamazonworkers
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