Episode 128: Tommy Carden of Warehouse Workers For Justice

The Checkout speaks with Tommy Carden, Lead Organizer of Warehouse Workers for Justice, an Illinois based workers center organizing in the era of Amazon.

Warehouse Workers for Justice is a workers center founded in 2008 to win stable, living wage jobs with dignity for the hundreds of thousands of workers in Illinois’ logistics and distribution industry. WWJ provides workshops about workplace rights, unites warehouse workers to defend their rights on the job, builds community support for the struggles of warehouse workers and fights for public and private policies that promote full-time work at decent wages in the warehouse industry. WWJ is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

https://www.ww4j.org/whoweare.html

Support: https://www.ww4j.org/donate.html

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Episode #128 Notes

1:00 - What is Warehouse Workers for Justice?

2:45 - What is it like working in warehouses now, especially through COVID?

7:00 - Where does 3PL come into warehouse and supplychain issues?

9:30 - How do campaigns for work organizing get started?

12:00 - What are the campaigns that you’ve helped start?

16:00 - How do you work with warehouse employees to make them better organizers?

21:00 - On motivations for worker organizing.