Tag: worker rights

The PRO Act alone won’t end economic inequality or return prosperity and opportunity to America’s working families. But passage of the PRO Act would help.

“The goal for every one of our team members is to ensure all of our brothers and sisters go home safely to their families each and every day.”

“These companies are not going to give you everything out of the goodness of their hearts. They start sweating when they see you standing together.”

Don’t let big corporations pay hundreds of millions to strip workers of the rights and protections they need.

The only true solution, no NOT a revolution, is for ALL workers to belong to what the Industrial Workers of the World AKA Wobblies, called 'One Big Union'.

Observers at VICE said the ads show the retail tech giant sees “labor organizing as one of the biggest threats to its existence.”

While the unintended economic disaster now unfolding throughout the world is unprecedented, the progressive left must heed the lessons of disasters like Katrina, Maria and wars of aggression in places like Iraq to be ready to confront the potentially life and death struggles ahead.

“It just shows how very little regard Amazon has for its overworked employees.”

“At a time when our country is depending on skilled workers to make essential products like ventilators, our members are left wondering why they are facing layoffs instead of having the opportunity to use their skills to help save lives.”

If Amazon doesn’t do more to protect workers, “they are not only profiting from this pandemic, but they’re helping to perpetuate it.”