@amazon SHAMEFUL 🤮 #Amazon workers say an elderly worker died on the job on Dec. 28th after returning from medical leave and “instead of shutting down, Amazon managers stacked boxes around the body until a coroner could arrive so they could keep workers working through it,” reported labor journalist and Guardian contributor Michael Sainato. This workplace death reportedly occurred at Amazon’s DEN4 warehouse in #ColoradoSprings, #Colorado. Via @rose.warfare "In a previous 2019 incident, 48-year-old Amazon warehouse worker Billy Foister died of a heart attack and was left on the shop floor for 20 minutes before receiving treatment, according to his brother. “After the incident, everyone was forced to go back to work. No time to decompress,” said an Amazon worker on the same shift, Amazon denies. In November, Bessemer, AL Amazon warehouse workers say two of their coworkers died within hours of each other after being denied sick leave, one on site and the other in hospital. Amazon denies this. Six Bessemer warehouse workers died on the job in 2021, said co-workers. A highly contentious 2021 union drive took place in Bessemer, workers voting a union down by a wide margin. However, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Amazon improperly interfered in the first election. Amazon went as far as to alter the timing on traffic lights near the warehouse to hinder workers from talking to organizers, local officials reported. Amazon tracks warehouse workers' every move because Jeff Bezos thinks people are inherently lazy, former Amazon VP and architect of its warehouse-management system David Niederk said. - 374 workplace strikes in 2022, increase of 39% from 2021 - NLRB reports 53% uptick in union election petitions in 2022 - Approval of unions at highest point since 1965, according to a 2022 Gallup poll, with 71% of Americans approving - On 4/1/22, the Staten Island, JFK8, Amazon warehouse became the first unionized Amazon workplace recognized by the NLRB, forming the amazonlaborunion, led by chris.smalls_ on Instagram. Democracy in the workplace and conversations surrounding it are only on the rise, from the shop floor and assembly line to the cafe."