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Injured former Amazon warehouse workers and labor organizers in Chicago are protesting dangerous work speed and high injury rates today outside one of the company’s brick-and-mortar stores in downtown Chicago. The action coincides with the release of a new report on injury rates in one of the region’s largest and most dangerous warehouses, MDW7, the first in Illinois with automated robots. The report and protest in Chicago coincides with the launch of a national coalition, known as Athena, of three dozen grassroots labor, antitrust, and digital rights organizations—the first unified resistance effort in the United States against the delivery giant.

Date:
December 10, 2019
Workers involved:
40
Type of collective action:
Protest
Struggle:
Working Conditions
Companies involved:
Amazon
Employment type(s):
Blue Collar Workers
Location(s):
Chicago Illinois Usa
Online:
Yes
Tag(s):
None

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