Working People: She asked Amazon for injury accommodations. They fired her.

The Amazon Labor Union victory at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island was historic, but right now, as we speak, Amazon is currently in court trying to throw out the results of that election, and pro-union worker-organizers keep getting fired. One of those workers is Alicia Johnson, who, as Luigi Morris writes, is "a 56-year-old Black immigrant who lives in the deep Bronx and worked at JFK8 as a Picker Packer. Her commute to work took more than two and a half hours." After Johnson exercised her right to request accommodation from Amazon that would allow her to keep working with an injured leg, she was fired in a suspected act of retaliation. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks to Johnson about her time working at Amazon, why she supports the union, and about the Kafkaesque nightmare she's faced trying to secure the unemployment benefits she's entitled to.<br /><br />To read the transcript of this episode and read show notes, visit: <a href="https://therealnews.com/a-pro-union-worker-asked-amazon-for-injury-accommodations-amazon-fired-her" rel="noopener">https://therealnews.com/a-pro-union-worker-asked-amazon-for-injury-accommodations-amazon-fired-her</a><br /><br />Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org):<br />Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"<br /><br />Pre-Production/Studio: Maximillian Alvarez<br />Post-Production: Jules Taylor<br /><br />Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: <br /><br />Donate: <a href="https://therealnews.com/donate-pod" rel="noopener">https://therealnews.com/donate-pod</a><br />Sign up for our newsletter: <a href="https://therealnews.com/newsletter-pod" rel="noopener">https://therealnews.com/newsletter-pod</a><br /><br />Like us on Facebook: <a href="https://facebook.com/therealnews" rel="noopener">https://facebook.com/therealnews</a><br />Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/therealnews" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/the