Stand up for your rights

With Amazon workers in Spain staging a two-day strike over wages and overtime, it's time for everyone at the fulfillment centers and sort centers elsewhere do it, too. In a lot of these locations overseas, people who practice a specific religion make up over 60% of the workers, so if they strike or stop work, they've got management by the balls. What are they going to do, fire everyone?

Of course not, because that would just create a bigger problem for management that they can't easily or quickly solve. And because their culture is more socially close-knit than American culture, they spread the word quickly and they stand together to get what they want. Amazon won't be able to hire many people from those cultures to replace the people they fire, and as word spreads in the whole community via the media and word of mouth, nobody will want to work there to prop up Jeff Bezos' megalomaniacal empire.

For U.S. workers, if anyone believes they've been passed over for a promotion because of age, sex, race, gender, religion, marital status, disability, etc., you should absolutely file a charge with your state human rights department (most states have one), or with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The more charges that Amazon has to deal with defending against, the more likely it is that the EEOC will take their own legal action against them, or Amazon will actually want to settle on your terms.

Keep in mind that Amazon doesn't say this, but you can tell by watching who gets promoted and checking their background. They favor hiring veterans (which is legal), but they hire them into positions which they have no training or experience for, all the while making it impossible for people who start at the bottom in the fulfillment center or sort center to get to that level. And those people they hired into the Level 4 or Level 5 positions are the ones they fast track for promotion even higher in rank. Because getting promoted isn't really about qualifications, it's about personal relationships, and as a Level 4 or Level 5 employee already, you have the ability to make those connections, while people below that level don't have that opportunity.

This is how Amazon discriminates against everyone, all the time. We need to put a stop to this, before there's no more retail establishments left, and Amazon uses their monopoly power to raise prices on everything.