Amazon Fires Senior Executives at Unionized Staten Island Warehouse

After Amazon employees in a giant warehouse in Staten Island won a sad union victory last month, union leaders celebritiessent shock waves through the wider labor movement and mobilized the politicians Nationwide to rally behind Amazon workers. Now, it seems to have spawned fallout in Amazon’s management ranks as well. On Thursday, Amazon reported that …

Amazon Workers Start Voting Union at Another Staten Island Facility

About 1,500 workers at an Amazon sorting center in Staten Island will qualify to vote this week in an election that could form the company’s second union in the US. This month, an Amazon warehouse with more than 8,000 employees in Staten Island, vote to unionizeAlthough it supports the union by a margin of more …

Amazon Workers in Staten Island Vote to Unionize

Workers at Amazon’s massive Staten Island warehouse voted by a wide margin to form a union, a stunning win for a campaign targeting the nation’s second-largest employer and one of the biggest victories for organized labor, according to results announced Friday. generation. According to the first tally released by the National Labor Relations Board, employees …

The Epidemic Made Island Life More Attractive

Prices range from $700,000 to $12.5 million, according to Matt Deitch, executive director of Abaco developer Southworth Development. Inspired by traditional Bahamian architecture, with pitched metal roofs and colorful clapboard siding, all rooms feature large decks and wide open spaces. There are more than 90 properties on site and a brand new community of 36 …

The NLRB sued Amazon over its labor practices at a Staten Island facility.

The National Labor Relations Board sued Amazon in federal court on Thursday, asking a judge to force the company to quickly fix what it calls “manifestly unfair labor practices” before workers at one of its Staten Island warehouses go to work. voting in a union election next week. The lawsuit, filed in New York’s Eastern …

‘Hart Island’ Gives Voice to Stories That Could Otherwise Be Disappeared

We know from pieces what we know about Hart Island, one of the largest mass grave sites in the country. Pieces of history, memory, testimony. Since the 1800s, this pottery field in Long Island Sound has been marginalized, unidentified, and the final resting place for the sick. New York’s homeless Stillborn babies with no relatives …

50 Years Ago, James Brown Takes an Unexpected Scene: Rikers Island

A stage and folding chairs for the audience were set up in front of the hall. Caldwood watched Brown rehearse before the concert. “He acted like he was on Broadway or elsewhere,” said Caldwood when Brown criticized something a band member had done wrong. “They didn’t say anything, they just did whatever he said.” But …

‘Offseason’ Review: Shuttered Island – The New York Times

An island might seem like the ideal setting for a horror movie – what could be scarier than nowhere to escape? — but limited characters can also leave you with limited narrative options. Writer and director Mickey Keating’s latest film, “Offseason,” is a good example: Despite an extraordinarily terrifying atmosphere, this pessimistic review of guilt …

A Second Amazon Site on Staten Island Will Have a Union Election

The National Labor Relations Board approves a union election for the second time Amazon The Staten Island warehouse opens a new front in the growing challenges to the company’s workforce model. The agency reported to the company Wednesday that the new Amazon Labor Union in Staten Island had gathered enough signatures to prove sufficient interest …

Troop Selection Set at Amazon’s Staten Island Warehouse

A fledgling labor union at Amazon and Staten Island warehouses agreed to terms for an election for the end of March, setting the stage for two major elections at Amazon warehouses simultaneously. The Staten Island warehouse election will be held in person March 25-30, according to Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee in Staten Island …