Alicia Johnson
Working People29 Kesä 2022

Alicia Johnson

The Amazon Labor Union victory at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island was historic, but right now, as we speak, Amazon is currently in court trying to throw out the results of that election, and pro-union worker-organizers keep getting fired. One of those workers is Alicia Johnson, who, as Luigi Morris writes, is "a 56-year-old Black immigrant who lives in the deep Bronx and worked at JFK8 as a Picker Packer. Her commute to work took more than two and a half hours." After Alicia exercised her right to request accommodation from Amazon that would allow her to keep working with an injured leg, along with providing the necessary medical paperwork, she was fired in a suspected act of retaliation. We talk to Alicia about her time working at Amazon, why she supports the union, and about the Kafkaesque nightmare she's faced trying to secure the unemployment benefits she's entitled to.

Additional links/info below...

Permanent links below...

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

  • Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(391)

UAW becomes first major union to divest from Israel

UAW becomes first major union to divest from Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Detroit, Michigan, union delegates debated and affirmed the aggressive direction the UAW has taken under current President Sha...

26 Kesä 1h 4min

FBI raids homes of Michigan students and workers for Palestine activism

FBI raids homes of Michigan students and workers for Palestine activism

On June 10, early in the morning, FBI agents raided the homes of individuals involved in Palestine solidarity activism at the University of Michigan. As Yarden Katz and Stephen M. Ward report at Mondo...

24 Kesä 25min

LIVE SHOW w/ Kim Kelly, Alex Press, and Hamilton Nolan

LIVE SHOW w/ Kim Kelly, Alex Press, and Hamilton Nolan

The world as we know it is facing unprecedented crises today that are all converging at once, from "end-times fascism" and full-blown oligarchy to "artificial intelligence," endless wars, and genocide...

18 Kesä 1h 12min

Who's afraid of Chris Smalls?

Who's afraid of Chris Smalls?

At a live event hosted at Red Emma's Cooperative Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Baltimore, Maryland, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez got to sit down for a deep and wide-ranging conversation wit...

8 Kesä 54min

'They were going after everyone': Baltimore security officers fired and removed from schedules after lawful strike

'They were going after everyone': Baltimore security officers fired and removed from schedules after lawful strike

Nearly a year after workers voted to authorize a strike, non-union city and commercially contracted security officers in Baltimore, MD, walked off the job on April 9 on an Unfair Labor Practice strike...

27 Touko 29min

Kim Kelly: Coal miners are dying, and Trump betrayed them

Kim Kelly: Coal miners are dying, and Trump betrayed them

Since the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump and his acolytes, rightwing media, and coal industry barons and lobbyists have obsessively painted the picture of Trump as a friend to coal miners an...

20 Touko 33min

Over 4,000 UAW members on strike at Harvard University

Over 4,000 UAW members on strike at Harvard University

After 14 months of fruitless contract negotiations with the Harvard University administration, over 4,000 workers represented by the Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU-UAW Local 5118) walked off th...

12 Touko 50min

Meet the new Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bosses, same as the old bosses

Meet the new Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bosses, same as the old bosses

After members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh won their strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in late 2025, which had lasted for over 3 years, they were notified in January that the paper's wealt...

7 Touko 52min

Suosittua kategoriassa Yhteiskunta

olipa-kerran-otsikko
seitseman
i-dont-like-mondays
siita-on-vaikea-puhua
hupiklubi
sita
antin-palautepalvelu
poks
kaksi-aitia
ihme-ja-kumma
mamma-mia
gogin-ja-janin-maailmanhistoria
uutiscast
kolme-kaannekohtaa
yopuolen-tarinoita-2
rss-palmujen-varjoissa
aikalisa
rss-haudattu
meidan-pitais-puhua
kummitusjuttuja