The Castleton-on-Hudson native joined Amazon in February as a way to suss out working conditions for her two high school–aged sons. Heather Goodall, a 50-year-old former insurance agent and the lead organizer at the Albany warehouse, saw red flags early on. Now, Amazon workers across the country are fighting back through union drives and walkouts to demand better working conditions. A growing number of employees, who are paid between $16 and $26 an hour, believe the e-commerce giant- which made $33.4 billion in net income last year-can easily afford to raise wages and improve safety protocols in a space where they’re forced to work as quickly as they can to meet productivity quotas. Molik is far from the only worker fed up with the company profiting off the backs of their labor. “They’d rather spend $3,200 a day on a union-busting consultant … rather than the $15 that it costs to give us the hard hats,” Molik said, citing the amount Amazon previously paid employee relations consultants to persuade employees in Bessemer, Alabama, not to unionize.Īmazon did not respond to requests for comment, but in a statement to WAMC, the company said that allegations about missing hard hats were false. Amazon denied his initial claim, and he has hired a lawyer to fight the decision. More than a month after the accident, Molik is still waiting for his workers’ compensation. And it’s entirely because this place is so unsafe.” I have to get an MRI and I don’t know how long I’m going to be out of work. “I just got out of the neurologist’s office this past Friday. “I now have a severe head injury,” Molik, 35, told the Prospect at a pre-election rally urging workers at ALB1 to join the Amazon Labor Union. Instead of being sent to the hospital immediately, Molik was brought to urgent care first, before an actual ambulance was called, he said.
On September 6, inside the million-square-foot Amazon facility known as ALB1 in Castleton-on-Hudson, about ten miles from Albany, New York, Samuel Molik was standing on a forklift about 20 feet up in the air when two wooden tables suddenly fell off a shelf and hit him on the back of his head. Amazon Labor Union representatives and supporters turned up at the ALB1 union election rally, October 10, 2022.
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