Paris Marx is joined by Sara Mojtehedzadeh to discuss the Teamsters’ organizing at Amazon warehouses in Canada and the working conditions that workers face at those facilities.Sara Mojtehedzadeh is a labour reporter at the Toronto Star and the host of Hustled, a podcast about Foodora workers’ fight for a union. Follow Sara on Twitter at @SaraMojtehedz.🚨 T-shirts are now available!Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:

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• In June, the Teamsters voted to put resources behind unionizing Amazon.
• The Teamsters Canada applied for seek-union-vote-at-amazon-warehouse-in-what-could-be-a-canadian-first.html">a union vote in Edmonton, Alberta, and said it’s organizing at nine warehouses. Amazon is a-cross-canada-hiring-spree-amazon-boosts-wages-for-warehouse-workers-while-eliminating-bonus-program.html">hiring 15,000 workers and raising wages.
• During the pandemic, the Canadian government signed a deal with Amazon to deliver PPE. The contract fell apart.
• After an Amazon worker died in Indiana, the governor intervened to overturn the citations.
• California is regulating productivity quotas at warehouses.
• Discussions are picking up about sectoral bargaining in Canada.
• Sara wrote about the warehouse-workers-saw-injury-rates-double-then-covid-hit-inside-a-hidden-safety-crisis.html">high injury rates at Amazon’s Canadian warehouses and the temporary than-600-amazon-workers-in-brampton-got-covid-19-why-were-so-few-reported-to-the-province.html">closure of its Brampton, Ontario warehouse after a Covid outbreak.
• Find out more about Teamsters Canada’s Amazon campaign and the Warehouse Workers Centre.

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