The Amazon Labor Union held a rally outside the JFK8 Fulfilmment Center in Staten Island Wednesday evening — in the midst of the retail giant’s “Prime Day” promotion — to protest what they say are unsafe working conditions that have persisted for years.
Workers from other Amazon sites in the Hudson Valley, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and even a Whole Foods in Philadelphia — the first location of that Amazon-owned grocer to unionize — came to show support for the rally at the warehouse near the Goethals Bridge.
The temperature inside the sprawling, 855,000 square foot facility is untenable according to Amazon employees at the rally, who are calling on the corporation to provide adequate air conditioning…