Clarissa Hernandez, an actress and WAAR member, distributed hand warmers to marchers and emphasized the benefits of unionizing JFK8. The march was organized by Workers’ Assembly Against Racism as part of a broad wave of actions against Amazon in the Netherlands, England, France, Germany, Colombia and Canada. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Documents obtained by Gizmodo show that JFK8’s rates of injury and illness are three times as high as the national average among Amazon warehouses. Every week, Amazon loses about 3% of its hourly workers, almost double that of similar retail and logistics companies, according to The New York Times. on Black Friday to demand the company recognize a new labor union at JFK8. Ramirez was among 100 workers gathered outside Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Manhattan penthouse at 212 Fifth Ave. Nobody wanted to help me out, so they ended up firing me.” “I started crying because I was getting harassed … I tried reporting her to other people within my shift. “She accused me of writing something on a garbage can and threatening her life - I never threatened her life,” Ramirez said.
After a disagreement with her shift leader over her pay rates, Ramirez was left jobless for seven months and “blacklisted” from the company. For more than a year and a half, Tamara Ramirez worked an overnight shift four days a week at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island.
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