Police cracked down on striking drivers in Queens who blocked deliveries.

From the article: In December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

  • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    10 hours ago

    The second arrest was of Anthony Rosario, Teamsters organizer and former UPS driver who was a leader in the 1997 UPS strike.

    Rosario says he and the workers were complying with police officers’ demand to let one truck through every two to three minutes. When police began trying to let more trucks through, he says, he “continued to walk, using my right … and you know, they just decided to arrest me.

    I’d love to see the charge

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    107·
    15 hours ago

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t striking become less violent and destructive because we all agreed to gentleman’s rules?

    Rules the NYPD just broke?

    They’re forgetting the lessons we all learned in the gilded age.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    95·
    15 hours ago

    I do believe that that old, traditional folk song applies here.

    Written by the troubadours O’Shea Jackson, Lorenzo Patterson, and Tracy Curry, it goes something like this:

    Fuck the police, fuck fuck
    Fuck the police, fuck fuck
    Fuck the police, fuck the, fuck the
    Fuck the police