American Courage In A Fulfillment Center by
Three Amazon employees at a Campbellsville, Kentucky fulfillment center prepare a sit-down strike for the following day. However, when Mitchell, a single father terrified of losing his benefits, informs his co-organizers that human resources plans to beef up security for the secret strike, Lili and Maria try to hold the untethering protest together. Lili and Maria tag team Mitchell with the hard facts of their...
Three Amazon employees at a Campbellsville, Kentucky fulfillment center prepare a sit-down strike for the following day. However, when Mitchell, a single father terrified of losing his benefits, informs his co-organizers that human resources plans to beef up security for the secret strike, Lili and Maria try to hold the untethering protest together. Lili and Maria tag team Mitchell with the hard facts of their labor: ten minute bathroom breaks, no job security, no guaranteed hours, performance consoles, constant monitors, and the corporate behemoth’s refusal to recognize a union. But it is not enough to convince Mitchell that the strike should continue, especially since a sit-down strike is the most dangerous tactic in the labor movement, which has not been used effectively since the 1930s’ GM Flint Strike. It becomes a tug of war between the parties and Lili, a veteran labor organizer, finally brings the decisive blow. She calls off the strike because of disunity in the ranks and proclaims “we’ll come back another day.” Maria, devastated and exhausted, refuses to back down and packs her supplies bag with what seems to be a sheathed firearm for the strike.