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Chicago Amazon Workers Lead First-Ever Multi-Warehouse Walkouts

After a string of broken promises, fed-up Amazon workers walked out.

Amazon promised workers in Chicago full-time roles with a hiring bonus, extra pay for working Thanksgiving, and paid bereavement leave. Every promise was broken.

So these courageous workers with Amazonians United Chicagoland led the first-ever walkouts coordinated across multiple Amazon warehouses. 

Workers say they are tracked during bathroom breaks and have limited paid time off, but a worker-signed petition for increased wages and safe staffing was received and ignored by Amazon.