He learned the benefits of organized labor early on, growing up with both of his parents earning middle class salaries through their unionized postal jobs. Martin Luther King Jr.’s view that the best anti-poverty program is a union,” Glover said. This makes Amazon employees’ demands for improvements in their working conditions, such as family-sustaining wages and humane break time policies, seem even more reasonable.
Amazon CEO Bezos has seen his fortune expand by about $70 billion since the Covid outbreak. Glover believes the disparities of the pandemic crisis could push the union over the top. “We simply have to stop glorifying the billionaires who are trying any way they can to disempower workers.” “We’re seeing all the draconian, ugly ways that corporations demonize the idea of organized labor,” Glover said in an interview with on February 22 before heading off to show support for the workers at the plant gate and in meetings with local officials and media. In the lead-up to the vote, Amazon deployed what the union calls the “gold package” of anti-union tactics, including intimidating meetings with managers, setting up a fear-mongering web site, and plastering workplace restrooms with propaganda. If a majority vote in favor, they would become the e-commerce giant’s first U.S. The warehouse’s more than 5,800 predominantly Black workers are in the middle of a historic vote on unionization. Actor and activist Danny Glover traveled this week to the most-watched Amazon facility in the country - the Bessemer fulfillment center outside Birmingham, Alabama.
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