Amazon Powers ICE. Its Workers Aren’t Happy.
Amazon workers, including unionized warehouse staff, delivery drivers, and tech employees, are protesting the company's contracts with ICE and its surveillance practices, which they say exploit workers and enable deportation operations. Workers argue that Amazon's use of data and automation threatens job security and erases worker identity, while also supporting government surveillance through AWS. Despite unionization efforts and some gains, Amazon continues to refuse to bargain with many of its unionized workers.
- ▪Amazon Web Services holds contracts with ICE and Palantir, supporting deportation operations.
- ▪Amazon workers unionized with the Teamsters have won limited concessions but face refusal from Amazon to bargain.
- ▪Workers protest Amazon’s surveillance, data collection, and role in enabling immigration enforcement.
- ▪Acting ICE director Todd Lyons compared deportation goals to 'Amazon Prime for human beings.'
- ▪Thousands of Amazon workers are unionized, and many are immigrants affected by ICE policies.
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freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: "motherjones_right_rail_1", slotId: "ROS_ATF_300x600" }); Matt Multari, an Amazon driver who works in Queens, spoke against Amazon's collaboration with ICE at a May Day rally.Sophie Hurwitz Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Matt Multari has been driving for Amazon—and organizing with the Teamsters—for about a year and a half. His days are mostly spent delivering packages. But he thinks of his role as a worker-organizer as something much more historically significant than just maximizing delivery efficiency. “After the Assyrians lost their state, they survived in their homeland of Iraq for thousands of years.
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