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Faculty Teach-In:
Building solidarity with Amazon warehouse workers:Supply chain organizing & the Covid-19 crisis
Facilitated by Dr. Charmaine Chua, Professor UCSB Global Studies
Toilet paper and face mask shortages. Store closures. Empty grocery shelves. Covid-19 has laid bare the vulnerabilities of supply chain capitalism as a whole, but it has been a boon for Amazon. As middle-class Americans self-isolate and turn to online marketplaces for life's essentials, Amazon has kept its 110 US warehouses open amidst an unprecedented surge in online orders, putting its delivery drivers and warehouses workers at enormous risk to to the virus. Amidst all this, Amazon workers are fighting back. Amazonians United, a network of Amazon warehouse and delivery workers, are currently engaged in a mass Covid-19 organizing drive. Thousands of Amazon workers are signing a national petition across the country to fight for hazard pay, sick leave, and a safer workplace.
This Strike University session combines a teach-in on the rise of just-in-time logistics with a training session for volunteers to reach out to Amazon workers and connect them to fellow warehouse workers who are organizing their workplaces.
ABOUT US
The people’s university.
Think tank for resistance movements
Training school for a new generation of university labor organizers.
About the strike
The people’s university.
Think tank for resistance movements
Training school for a new generation of university labor organizers.
About the strike
OUR VISION
Public education free and accessible for everyone - without student debt.
Critical thinking and skills - not bound to the imperatives of the market.
Communities of care and shared struggle - not competition for grades & grants.
Brilliance - without ‘experts’.
Learn your power to organize personal and social transformation.
Decolonize, democratize, queer, and abolish the university.
Public education free and accessible for everyone - without student debt.
Critical thinking and skills - not bound to the imperatives of the market.
Communities of care and shared struggle - not competition for grades & grants.
Brilliance - without ‘experts’.
Learn your power to organize personal and social transformation.
Decolonize, democratize, queer, and abolish the university.
STRIKE UNIVERSITY
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