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NYPD Arrests Workers During Historic Amazon Strike (inthesetimes.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Twoafros to c/unions

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From the article: In December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

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[–] southsamurai 130 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I do believe that that old, traditional folk song applies here.

Written by the troubadours O'Shea Jackson, Lorenzo Patterson, and Tracy Curry, it goes something like this:

Fuck the police, fuck fuck
Fuck the police, fuck fuck
Fuck the police, fuck the, fuck the
Fuck the police

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

Oh, workers can you stand it? Oh, tell me how you can Will you be a lousy scab Or will you be a man??

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Coming straight from the underground?

[–] stringere 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Under the current circumstances they should consult Ice Cube's metal band Bodycount for advice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ice T, you mean?

[–] stringere 2 points 3 days ago

Oops, yes, thank you.