We give New York a D overall. Both New York and New Jersey tease long histories of being difficult places to do business. New Jersey offensives No. The allege has a long history of lurching from one budget crisis to the next.
Both cities have a wealth of higher-education dogmas to draw from, and New York boasts that it has nearly twice as varied technology workers as San Francisco. Newark does not exactly have a reputation for the quality of sprightliness that tech talent might desire, while quality of living in New York City can be an acquired taste. While both have the mass transit and airports Amazon homelessness, and both have historically been generous with incentives and tax defies, there is no getting around the fact that they are expensive misplaced humbles to do business, relative to the other locations Amazon is considering.
Roads, unites and subway systems are badly in need of repair, and commutes can be numbing. But one of the biggest circumstances hindering both cities may be that they are working against each other, declared Greg LeRoy, executive director of the non-partisan watchdog group Commodities Jobs First, who is closely watching the HQ2 sweepstakes.
He believes New York and Newark would take been better off had they joined forces and bid together. Amazon has signified it reserves the right to return to the bidders and seek different terms as the change continues, so conceivably the company could seek to combine locations that are connected each other. But several cooperative bids failed to make the sooner cut in January. They included St. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
They tried to spread lies and false information. However, Smalls says ALU has a strong workers committee filled with seasoned veterans who know the ins and outs of the company and that this effort has a different energy when it comes to organizing. The funds are earmarked to cover the costs of the union's campaign, including pamphlets and literature, apparel, banners, signs, posters, and web hosting costs, and will provide funds to support workers who are terminated for union support or who are engaging in any legal proceedings against Amazon.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel told FOX Business that the company's employees have always had the choice of whether or not to join a union.
That type of continuous improvement is harder to do quickly and nimbly with unions in the middle. A majority of them on government assistance," Smalls said.
If [Jeff Bezos] is able to go, fly to space and come back to Earth and thank us, then he needs to pay us more. They send out text messages, they send out emails. They have the same union busting firm, walking around the building, spreading rhetoric, spreading lies, spreading doubt. We've seen it all. I mean, they didn't hesitate with us. They started probably the first or second week. They didn't wait six or seven months into our campaign, which tells us that we're a real threat.
Errol: So these are some of the same tactics they used in Bessemer. And does it worry you that those tactics were very effective in stopping the Bessemer campaign? Chris: The way they were union busting in Alabama, with the intimidation factor, they had police at every single interest entrance of the facility.
Every single day. But here in New York is a different energy. New York is a union town already. A lot of these workers are related to union members, whether it's their parents or grandparents, they get off the bus, the MTA is unionized. Even the police department is unionized, the Fire Department is unionized. So everything that Amazon is trying to do with us it's not working, it's actually backfiring. Because they're going so hard with the union busting that workers are realizing is probably something that they need.
Errol: What are some of the positives that workers hope to have by being a member of a union? Chris: Well, the number one thing is salary. A unionized worker makes roughly eleven to twelve thousand dollars more than non-unionized workers. Every unionized worker that I know, every unionized worker here in New York, they make very good money.
They have a pension, they have job security. They have representation. They have Medicare, Medicaid, paid medical leave, you name it, the sky's the limit when you're in the Union.
And when it comes to non-unionized workers, you know, companies can hire us and fire us at will. And that's what we tell workers that start here, that just got hired, this company can walk you out the next day for no reason.
And that's what we have to stop. We have to break down that system and form something that's going to protect us. Chris: This is a very grassroots campaign. Please donate to our GoFundMe. Every penny comes in and out right towards unionizing Amazon. So be a part of history. We're in the very beginning stages of our fight. We need as much as support on the inside of the warehouses.
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