Support Fired Amazon Union Organizer

On December 7th, Amazon worker Arturo Adame was fired in an act of targeted anti-union retaliation- leaving him unemployed coming into the holiday season. The week prior, Arturo and his union organizing committee collected over 140 coworkers’ signatures for a petition that was part of a nationwide campaign demanding better pay, safety and respect from Amazon.

Ever since a successful 2022 walkout from their Buford warehouse, Amazon has illegally targeted Arturo, unfairly disciplining him for minor and non-existent offenses while constantly ignoring their own safety policies and procedures. Leading up to Arturo’s termination, DGE9 management and Amazon corporate officials kept constant notes on him, writing him up three times in about a month for checking his phone immediately after clocking in.

On December 7th, after first break, DGE9 management and Amazon corporate officials called him into the building’s HR office for a conversation about his “performance”. This conversation was just a pretext for his termination based on a write up that had been filed 7 days earlier. Why wait to fire someone a week after a final write up?

As a worker organizer, Arturo and the DGE9 organizing committee refuse to be silenced. We are already fighting back against Amazon and working towards his reinstatement. Still, Arturo has bills that go unpaid until then. Please donate here to contribute both to Arturo’s basic needs until he is reinstated and the continued organizing of Amazonians United Atlanta in our struggle for all workers to be free from the fear of Amazon’s retaliation and exploitative practices.