Amid Amazon's refusal to recognize the workers' union or negotiate, two conflicting approaches emerge: member support vs. intensified shop floor efforts. Consequently, the caucus files a lawsuit to reform ALU's constitution and hold officer elections.
The other approach, advocated by the 80-worker ALU Democratic Reform Caucus, is to increase the heat on the shop floor to push for a contract.
“I am concerned that the apparent turmoil within the ALU [Executive] Board means that little is being done to organize the workers and prepare for the battle with Amazon,”to the caucus and board after the mediation plan fell through. “It is clear that the ALU’s leadership must be re-organized and re-affirmed by the membership.”
Sylla, an immigrant from Liberia, worked the night shift in the lead-up to the historic election at JFK8; he was key in organizing the “yes” vote among African workers. He used to teach high school economics and world history at a private school on Staten Island, but lost his job during the pandemic and came to Amazon to support his wife and four children.
He pointed to a December membership meeting where caucus members walked out. “Somewhere along the line, they lost that mission that the union is about the people,” he said, “because they left and walked out on us. They abandoned their posts.” Bryson questioned the wisdom of even having a caucus. “Caucuses are formed when you have a contract, and you want to change things,” he said.
Michelle Valetin Nieves, the ALU’s vice president, directed all questions to one of the union’s attorneys.Last week when I visited JFK8 to interview workers, no one mentioned Smalls by name, but they remembered fondly the culture of solidarity and care — the sharing of food and organizers responding to worker complaints outside the warehouse or in the cafeteria.
Briana Lewis remembered when the ALU began organizing. She had just started working at Amazon. “The union was everywhere,” she said. “They’re outside in front of the building. They were making calls.” The reformers say they’ve never been better organized in the warehouse, and despite the internal discord, workers still want their union — just one that brings the fight to Amazon., i.e. any moment that is not spent working. Handheld radio-frequency scanners track and record workers’ productivity down to the minute, and managers use the information to punish workers who fall below their quotas. Dozens of workers at JFK8 blamed TOT for what Lewis described as “random write-ups.
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