Our Mission Statement

The Amazon Labor Union–IBT Local 1 is a worker-led union committed to transforming conditions at one of the most powerful corporations in the world. We are a fighting union—built by and for Amazon workers—who refuse to accept exploitation as the cost of survival.

Founded by warehouse workers at the JFK8 Fulfillment Center in Staten Island, New York, we organize to win dignity, safety, justice, and lasting power for Amazon employees, especially the Black, brown, immigrant, disabled, LGBTQ+, and working-class communities who form the backbone of Amazon’s global operations.

We are building a bold and democratic labor movement grounded in equity, solidarity, and grassroots leadership. We reject the status quo of corporate domination, political inaction, and top-down unionism.

Our mission is to forge a militant, worker-led movement at Amazon—one that inspires workers everywhere to rise up, organize, and take power into our own hands.

Our Vision Statement

We envision a future where Amazon is no longer controlled by billionaires and shareholders—but by the workers who make it run. A future where those who lift, move, ship, and sort the goods that power the global economy have true control over their labor, their safety, and their lives.

We are organizing toward a worker-controlled Amazon: one where decisions are made democratically, not dictated from the top. In this future, warehouses are governed by the people who work in them, not by algorithms or profit margins. Production is guided by human needs, not corporate greed. And workers are respected not as tools, but as the heart and mind of the company.

This vision is not a dream deferred; it is a plan in motion.

Through deep organizing, strategic action, and rank-and-file leadership, we are building a labor movement powerful enough to challenge corporate domination and win structural change. We believe Amazon can and must be transformed—from a symbol of exploitation into a model of workplace democracy.

This is our future. We are not waiting for permission to build it—we’re organizing to take it.