Viewpoint: There’s More to Amazon Organizing Strategy Than Choke Points | Labor Notes

labornotes.org · 1,214 words · saved by 2 readers

As a longtime Amazon warehouse worker and union activist, I was glad to see Professor Ben Fong’s strategic analysis calling on the union movement to focus Amazon organizing on the Sortation Centers. But while I agree that the SCs are clear choke points in Amazon’s system, this sort of choke point analysis is only one component of an effective organizing strategy. When you look at the bigger picture, I think the argument for focusing on the SCs runs into trouble.

Viewpoint: There’s More to Amazon Organizing Strategy Than Choke Points | Labor Notes Skip to main content Viewpoint: There’s More to Amazon Organizing Strategy Than Choke Points English Español Post a Comment Workers walked out of an Amazon fulfillment center in Minnesota in 2018, protesting the dangerous pace of work. Each type of facility has its own organizing challenges: fulfillment centers have a more cohesive workforce, but less leverage to disrupt Amazon's logistics chain than sortation centers. Photo: Fibonacci Blue ( CC BY 2.0 ) As a longtime Amazon warehouse worker and union activis

Viewpoint: There’s More to Amazon Organizing Strategy Than Choke Points | Labor Notes

saved by

related reading