Average starting pay is going up from $18 per hour to “more than” $19 per hour starting next month. The company is raising pay ahead of another union election; warehouse workers in Albany recently filed to unionize, and the union vote will be held in October.
Labor Archive
Archives for September 2022
Jay Peters
Amazon is raising wages for its warehouse workers and delivery drivers.
Mitchell Clark
More testimony on how working at Tesla is a nightmare for women.
Rolling Stone interviewed five women involved in the several sexual harassment lawsuits against the automaker.
Hearing them describe how they were treated, and how Tesla failed to defend them (and sometimes actively punished them) is difficult.
‘How Many Women Were Abused to Make That Tesla?’
[Rolling Stone]
Mitchell Clark
The next Amazon union election is coming up.
On October 12th, workers at the ALB1 warehouse in Albany, New York will start voting on whether to unionize with the Amazon Labor Union — the same group that successfully organized the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island. Votes will be counted on October 18th, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

The company had an ambitious plan to fight extremism on the platform. So what happened to it?
Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton


Mitchell Clark




