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Organising the unorganised — lessons from workers past and present
The last year has seen important campaigns to organise workers, most notably in Amazon and Starbucks in the…
Organise to fight Amazon’s regime of abuse & exploitation
Amazon has decided to set up shop in Ireland. It plans to create a new ‘fulfilment centre’ at a 650,000sq ft unit in Baldonnell. The purported reasoning behind this is to avoid delays on the delivery of products and new taxes resulting from Brexit, which have added 40% to the cost of some products. The new warehouse would mean Amazon orders in Ireland would be picked and packed in Ireland, rather than in the UK.