![]() ![]() “I’m new in the country, and I know we have rights,” she told me over the phone earlier. Supporters hold signs during a rally and protest outside of the Amazon Fulfillment Center on Prime Day in Shakopee, Minn. At first she liked it, but the pace of work had increased to grueling levels, and more and more workers were getting fired for not keeping up. Her first job in the country was at Amazon. Twenty-six years old, Mohamed is originally from Somalia but emigrated to Kenya, then won a visa lottery to come to the US three years ago. Shortly before 2PM, when the day-shift workers planned to walk out, Hibaq Mohamed and several other workers came into the lobby. It would be the first work stoppage at a US facility during a peak shopping time, the most ambitious in an escalating series of actions at the Shakopee fulfillment center. The week before, the Shakopee workers had announced their intention to strike on the first day of Prime Day, which this year lasts two days. Above the turnstiles was written: Work Hard. Also in the window: a large, smiling man in a blazer, some sort of security person, but it was hard to say because his ID tag was tucked out of sight in his armpit. There were silvered balloons spelling out MSP1, the name of the warehouse, visible through the glass visitor’s window in the lobby, and walls of smiling Amazon boxes festooned with Prime Day banners. Ahead of the strike, an effort had been made to decorate the fulfillment center in Shakopee for Prime Day. ![]()
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