Amazon Workers at DJT6 Facility in Riverside Join Teamsters

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• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “It is a crime that Amazon makes billions off their backs while they can’t even afford to buy a home near the warehouse.”

  Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division and Secretary-Treasurer of Local 1932.

  Can confirm, I considered an engineering job in Riverside in ~2018. The salary offered to me as an early-to-mid career engineer was barely enough for the cheapest 1 bedroom apartment I could find. When I asked for a salary study, I was told “people make sacrifices” to work in CA and that I could find something cheaper by renting a room under the table or by commuting an hour-plus. If they would do that to a “white-collar” professional, imagine the coercion towards an hourly laborer consider low or “no” skilled.

  Good luck, folks working at DJT6. I’ll be cheering for you.

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Big names have a big draw. So they treat people like shit.

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wow they call their facilities DJT now?

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  • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m really curious about the naming. Most places use nearby airport codes, of which I can’t find any matching codes nearby. Also they usually start numbering from 1 and I can’t find any facilities numbered 1-5. Does anyone have more information on the naming as this looks really weird.

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    • grey_maniac@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      DJT 1-5 are probably for-profit slave colonies, I mean, detention centers, and not publicized. Amazon probably took a page from Apple and has netting under the windows so they don’t lose labour to petty things like suicide.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  probably not a good idea to join a very conservative UNION.

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• PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good on them. I said over the radio on at a retail store that when they ask for extra help on gathering karts to start unionizing then

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean I don’t know if I would trust the teamsters of all unions but it’s better nothing I guess.

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