KKE: Kuchumba meeting with the Amazon workers’ union – 2024-04-29 02:22:30

The General Secretary of the KE of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoubas, who is visiting the USA as the head of the party’s delegation, had, according to relevant information, “a cordial meeting with Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union and the members of his management Association, who greeted him with applause and slogans at noon on Friday at the Association’s Staten Island offices.”

The party’s delegation also includes Zisis Lymberidis, member of the KKE Central Committee Secretariat, Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, KKE MEP and re-candidate, and Kostas Gouliamos, also the Party’s MEP candidate. Claudia Ashterman, Arlene Kingston, Tristan Lion Dutchin, Danielle Hayden, Gerald Bryson, Jordan Glowers, Derick Palmer, Rinna Cummings and Mena Shuler also participated on behalf of the Association’s Management.

At the meeting, the party delegation had the opportunity to be informed “about the action of the union, the war they face from the employer in their constant fight for wages and against the terrible intensification, in “facilities built like prisons without even ventilation”, without even entitlement to sick leave in excess of 10 hours per year”.

Amazon workers collectively briefed on the union’s “never-ending fight for rights” against a company like Amazon, in an effort to organize even more workers in the union — which has more than 8,000 members at the facility alone of JFK airport – and the difficulties they face in a company that “has an official policy to change policy whenever they want”, with constant bans on their action”.

He also dealt with “the war in Palestine, the great struggles being developed in the US by workers and students against the genocide of the Palestinian people and the support provided by large business groups, such as Amazon, to the state of Israel.”

D. Koutsoubas expressed the “undivided solidarity of the KKE towards the Amazon union”, stressing that “the pioneering action it is developing, in very difficult conditions, shows the way of the organized assertion of workers all over the world”.

The visit of the KKE delegation to New York continues tomorrow, Saturday, with a tour by Dimitris Koutsoubas to shops of Greek expatriates in Astoria and a meeting with the Board of Directors of the Center for Greek Culture. At 19.00 he will speak at a meeting of the Club of Friends of the KKE New York.