Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.

Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    The RDU1 struggle is a microcosm of how corporate leviathans gut democracy while we clap for the spectacle of choice—voting under duress, surrounded by anti-union goons and propaganda. Amazon’s playbook? Classic divide-and-conquer, weaponizing racism to fracture solidarity. They’re not subtle: painting the union as a “Black laziness club” while exploiting Latino labor. Disgusting, but predictable. The real kicker? Cops acting as Amazon’s private militia, arresting organizers like it’s 1920s coal country. Democracy my ass—this is feudalism with a Prime membership.

    Solidarity across language barriers is the only antidote. CAUSE’s multilingual newsletters and Latino committees expose Amazon’s fragility: their empire crumbles when workers talk. But let’s not romanticize—this is trench warfare. Turnover rates ensure fresh meat for the grind, while HR’s “bilingual support” is a sick joke. Survival here means out-organizing fear, one covert “yes” vote at a time.

    The rot runs deep. A union contract won’t fix capitalism’s necrotic core, but it’s a Molotov against the machine. Every warehouse that unionizes is a crack in the armor. Amazon knows this. That’s why they’d rather burn Quebec than bend. RDU1’s fight isn’t just about breaks or pay—it’s about proving collective power can outmuscle even the most vicious corporate dystopia.