“You’re inspiring everybody who’s in a union and everybody who needs a union,” Susan Sarandon told Amazon workers phone banking to garner support for unionization. “I just feel you’re the most optimistic thing that’s happening right now in this country.'
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Sarandon, herself a member of SAG-AFTRA*, said she’d heard the workers were phone banking on social media and wanted to stop by to show her support. Workers and volunteers, gathered at the Unite Here Local 100 union offices, are aiming to call all of the estimated 8,000 workers at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse before voting starts on March 25th. The JFK8 distribution facility could become the nation’s first or second unionized Amazon warehouse. Workers in
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel has previously said the company wanted their workers' voices to be heard.
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