Multiple pro-union Amazon workers have been fired recently in suspected acts of retaliation and union busting from the company. Albert Elliot, a former Amazon employee and organizer with the rank-and-file group Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), speaks with Real News editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez about his termination and the inhumane working conditions at Amazon’s facilities.

You can support CAUSE’s organizing efforts and Albert’s family by donating to their GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pbxq8-cause?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

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45 thoughts on “Fired Amazon union organizer: “We’re not able to feed ourselves””
  1. Human resources is for the interests of the company. Not the employee. Don't be fooled.
    Unions are the voice and protection for worker rights!

  2. Increible con las GANANCIAS ASTRONOMICAS de Amazon SALARIOS bajos, condiciones de trabajo de esclavitud QUE VERGUENZA

  3. Hey,I agree, with for a Union and fighting Back,this is the struggle of all-American worker's, but think about ,what has occurred lately the billionaires are now democrats JeffBazoz,a d micro software sales . Man Bill Gates are now zDemocrqts?
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  4. BOYCOTT AMAZON. AMERICAN'S NEED TO STOP BUYING FROM AMAZON UNTIL THEY PAY THEIR WORKERS A GOOD SALARY. NOW NOT ONLY DO WE PAY A MONTHLY FEE THEY AMAZON WANTS US TO TIP THERE WORKERS. HELL NO! BOYCOTT AMAZON. DON'T BUY THERE PRODUCTS. JEFF BEZOS OWNS AMAZON HE IS GETTING RICH WHILE TREATING EMPLOYEES HORRIFICALLY.

  5. He is right on point. Everything he is staying is true other, I never heard anything about doing drug test cause people come in smelling like MJ. Yes, they did use a third party.

  6. Dude! They were trying to get rid of you from the get go! They just kept giving you the run around and that's that! I saw exactly your same scenario over and over at a big corporation here in kansas where i reside. In wichita Kansas ro be exact, rhe corporation is textron cessna, they ran the company just like amazon does, exactly the same! Good luck to you my friend, cheers!

  7. I know some people who busted up a good union. In the unions place the Corruption slowly seeped in and the pay and the freedom we had were now gone. We had no rights. Now I see that the new employees pay the Boss to keep working for. Cash bribes replaced the Union. Alot is going on there even right now. Stealing, all sorts of stuff. This has been going for a long-term time. There's a whole lot of Apathy in our country, people are too selfish these days. They'll 9nly do something for a woman only if they get something in return.

  8. Wow, you go to work at a place and decide you don't like certain aspects of the job and so you seek out help in changing the job. Why not just quit and go elsewhere? If I had a business and the employees voted to be union I'd lock the doors, go out of business and sell the business for $1 to my wife, change the name and hire new people but not that had worked for me in the past.

  9. Just remember, no corporation is your family no matter what they say to you. They will do what’s best for their bottom line before they look out for you. You are a cost and revenue producer. That’s it, end of story. They will get rid of you as soon as it’s not profitable to have you around. Once you understand this and internalize it, you will stop being fooled by corporations.

  10. Amazon simply ignored my many job apps and finally I decided to boycott all their products completely, but the general harassment on me by the $$$ystem continues unabated and has actually increased. I am completely barred from the workforce, cant get hired anywhere and after 18 years of quiet exemplary living I cant get on a jury either. If the stores want to hire me the job disappears anyway. I cant ever post any ad on Craigslist, for work, friendship or anything. Nothing materializes when I respond to existing ads. Nobody would believe this if it weren't happening to them. Also Albert is a HERO and a brilliant spokesman for all the oppressed in America. Our new "All People's Power and Justice NOW" political party is waiting for him to lead ;=) Beautiful gentle man, VERY INSPIRING!!!!! We WILL OVERCOME. Martin L King is CHEERING at you from heaven🙏💪👁

  11. Has Mr. Elliot been approached by any Lawsuits from Amazon?
    Has Amazon covred-up all that Mr. Elliot's claims of Amazon's disgraceful
    treatment of its' employees?

  12. This is what corporations do to prevent workers from forming unions by firing them. This happened to Chris Smalls forcing him to be a union organizer to prevent this exploitation of workers.

  13. Why was my question about restoring liability to ‘vaccine’ manufacturers removed? Why aren’t labor unions supporting members who are victims??

  14. I have asked this question when you were on another show: why aren’t any unions defending the rights of their members to refuse experimental gene therapies for colds? Are union leaders getting ‘funding’ from companies like Pfizer and Moderna ( or through there surrogates like NIH, the FDA, or the CDC to participate in ‘studies’ like the hospital networks)?

  15. Burn the joints down then , send a message to the christian organisation calling itself Amazon, remember amazon is owned bye slavers, so if you think your going to get a democratic pay in amazon employment your an imbeciels, Burn their joints down to take the managers out and string them up.

    Your government has sided with slavers so after stringing up amazon bosses you need to head to your government reps and string them up as well,
    Force your elected members to get the same pay as you do see how long they last.

    THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE.

  16. Amazon will keep on and one day they will go down in a fireball, just remember when its time to vote, don't put jeff bezos in the white house..

  17. The United States of America is adding massively to its slave labour count under its capitalist system and its citizens are largely unaware of that because of the massive success of its propaganda machines. Blaming other countries for its inherent dysfunctional system has been it way forward.

  18. I strongly support unionization, forced wage hikes, and stricter, more draconian government regulations.
    For the sole reason it'll finally break the backs of corporations to where they'll get off their lazy collective butts and hyper-automate the workplace.

  19. Same bullshit in the United Kingdom, zero hour contract, agency work, they pay the agency £40 per hour, agency pays the worker £10 an hour.

  20. VERY TIME SENSITIVE – PLEASE SEE RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR: MEDICARE ADVANTAGE IS A SCAM. Sooooo many are turning 65 right now and this is open enrollment, too – so many are being scammed into Medicare Advantage – trapped in it and to insurance abuses because after 6 months on it YOU CANNOT SWITCH TO MEDIGAP as pre-existing conditions/underwriting comes into play. Medicare Advantage is the insurance companies backdoor into COMPLETELY PRIVATING MEDICARE with 50% of enrollees now falling for the scam – we must stop that % from rising. If big insurance succeeds your generation will NEVER be free of big insurance and we must educate elders NOW – right now (OPEN ENROLLMENT IS NOW.)

  21. What labor laws are/were being broken ? I hear a bunch of complaints but nothing in regards to actual labor laws. Amazon sucks for sure . Yet , if you don't want to drive an hour to work , don't apply to a job , that requires you to drive an hour . If $15 an hour isn't enough pay . Find a higher paying job . Also , " random drug testing " is part of ALL current work contracts in the USA . Where there is heavy lifting or machinery , on site . I don't want to be working with a crane driver : who's under the influence of percs or pot . Prescription or no prescription. This sounds like whining . Nothing about important labor laws being overlooked or disregarded . Honestly , its a warehouse job . Mindless , physical , labor , that's it . If you want a cushy job . Don't work in a warehouse. I grew up on a farm . Working at Amazon was a cake walk . Amazon , got me through the 2 year shutdown . Lots of lazy people , working at Amazon . It's a numbers game . He was correct about the managers , though . Young , stupid , and faces glued to the computer . Amazon shouldn't be anyone's long-term career choice .

  22. Well of course because Jeff B belongs to the club we don't! And to them we are below Robots! First off you've already paid for the robot the robot don't get sick they don't need brake's and they do exactly what you say so like I said we are just temporary until they get their world version going or they can control us or they have accomplished their Genocide plans down to their exsepable numbers! F the WEF and Jeff B!

  23. "Rattling the Bars: Alabama prisoners on strike" 10/3/22 as well as
    "Fired Amazon union organizer: “We’re not able to feed ourselves”.
    NO DIFF. Enslaved by Capitalism One Way Or The Other. Human greed "Lives Forever"…BUT NOT FOR MUCH LONGER.

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