Amazon workers on strike coast-to-coast less than a week before the Christmas holiday.
Thousands of Amazon workers from Georgia to California were out on the picket lines Thursday morning.
That includes employees at the Amazon warehouse in southwest Fresno.
Action News spoke with a woman who says she’s worked for the company for six years in inventory and shipment packing.
“We need to recognize that Amazon really is the bigger problem enforcing these things on us that we should be able to talk about and fight against and not have to be silenced for,” said the woman, who did not want to be shown on camera.
She says she supports unionizing because of safety concerns when it comes to meeting Amazon’s demands.
“It’s hard to make those rates when you have to constantly bend down, kneel down and then try to get up. Overpacked bins also cause hand injuries at times that some of us don’t even report because they’re just little injuries we don’t take into account,” said the employee.
Members from the General Teamsters Union Local 431 and president Steve Sharp also came out to the Fresno location.