Amazon Workers Strike - Workers' Rights from Ben Franklin through Saul Alinsky and David Sanford to UNI Global Union

Workers advocate for what they designate as their rights in a lot of different ways.

Back in colonial times Ben Franklin bolted from an oppressive apprenticeship by becoming an entrepreneur - and a founding father of America. 

More recently there have been the class action and individual employment lawsuits as orchestrated by labor champion David Sanford of Sanford Heisler Sharp. The law firm's signature is winning settlements. Employers know what they are in for when they go up against Sanford.

Another advocacy tactic, which has had a comeback, is the strike, usually timed to inflict maximum damage on the business of the employer. That had suffered a setback when Ronald Reagan fired 11,359 striking airline traffic controllers.

Right now, some Amazon workers in 40 nations and US states ranging from Oregon to Pennsylvania have embraced the strike tactic. The timing has been Black Friday. It had been renamed Make Amazon Pay Day. And the grievances include alleged brutal work conditions and subpar compensation. Here are more details from the Daily Mail.

Given the growing number of Reductions-in-Force in US business, one wouldn't have anticipated Amazon workers to take that route. After all, there are so many stealth ways to push out "trouble-makers." Not that Amazon would take those steps. But that's the risk. Meanwhile, tech is a target for terminations.

But the strike did occur. It was overseen by the UNI Global Union. 

Now it could embolden other workers to also register their discontent against The Man in a variety of ways. 

Some might go Franklin's route of entrepreneurship and political action.

Others might set in play a legal journey by contacting Sanford about taking their case. 

Others could strike. 

Some will sow the seeds of unionizing as at Starbucks. 

And creative thinkers like the legendary Saul Alinksy could conjure up fresh modes of reform.

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