Can you Connect Us with an Amazon Worker Who Needs a Union?

The battle to gain better pay, benefits and working conditions for all workers in this country continues, especially for Amazon workers. 

As Jeff Bezos goes to space while Amazon workers are denied bathroom breaks and treated worse than robots, unions, including the APWU, are uniting to help Amazon workers help themselves – by organizing unions!

Amazon employs almost one million workers in the United States. If Amazon workers came together in a union, that would increase union density in the mail and package industry, helping raise wages and benefits for everyone in our industry. It is going to take the entire labor movement – multiple unions allying – to organize Amazon, but together workers can accomplish anything.

We, as postal workers and union members, know that the way to good pay and benefits and dignity, respect, safety, and justice in the workplace is to organize together in a union. The pay and benefits postal workers enjoy today is because of the collective bargaining rights fought for and achieved by strikers during the 1970 Great Postal Strike. That pay and benefits continue to be under attack because of the low pay and high healthcare costs now normal in the private sector. A non-union Amazon brings down the wages and benefits for workers in many industries, especially in transportation and mailing.