Delivery Worker Groups Plan Nationwide Strike for May Day

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Previous walkouts have done little to improve employee conditions. Will this one be different?

that participants have also committed to join from other well-known brands like Walmart and FedEx, too.

Due to the nature of these calls, specific demands are hard to pin down but the overarching message is that these workers want improved safety measures, including better access to PPEs, and better pay and health insurance that reflects the additional hazards their jobs now entail. However, what is once again not clear is how many people will actually be participating in this strike and what sort of impact those strikers will be able to have across so many fronts.

Whole Worker itself seemed to acknowledge the need to improve, writing that they “gathered feedback from our last action and implemented […] changes in our organizing strategy.” And obviously, the simple fact that another strike is necessary with nearly identical demands would seem to demonstrate that work is left to be done.told Vice’s Motherboard

. Smalls, who is a lead organizer of this new strike, was controversially fired after protesting conditions in Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center. “We formed an alliance between a bunch of different companies because we all have one common goal which is to save the lives of workers and communities.”

 

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