‘Amazon Delivers ICE’: Amazon Workers And Supporters Picketed Amazon Office On May Day
May 1, 2026 | Press Releases
(New York City)–––This morning, Amazon workers and community supporters picketed in front of Amazon’s JFK14 office in midtown Manhattan, demanding the company drop its contracts with ICE and CBP, and to pay its workers a living wage. Participants included members with ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1, the Athena Coalition, No Tech for Apartheid (Amazon and Google worker campaign), and Teamsters Local 804.
According to organizers, this May Day, Amazon workers and New Yorkers came together to challenge Amazon as “one of the biggest corporate threats to our communities and our democracy.” Supporters gathered at the New York Public Library steps in Bryant Park, then marched down 5th Avenue to Amazon’s office at W 34th Street. They held banners with slogans including, ‘Amazon Delivers ICE’, ‘Amazon Delivers War’, ‘Amazon Delivers Poverty’, ‘Amazon Delivers Surveillance.’
“Today, on May Day, Amazon workers are standing here together—from warehouses to the corporate offices—shoulder to shoulder, to say enough is enough. As workers, it is our responsibility to organize so that the technology we build is used for dignity, safety, and liberation, not surveillance, oppression, and war crimes. We are here to hold billionaires accountable for exploiting workers while enabling the most horrific abuses of our time: ICE deportations and the genocide in Gaza. Our labor is our power,” said a software engineer in Amazon Web Services (AWS) who organizes with No Tech for Apartheid (NOTA).
Among picketers, Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers cited being subject to dangerous, exploitative conditions to meet Amazon’s speed demands, while the company refuses to negotiate a first contract with unionized workers. Workers accused the corporation of paying poverty wages, plunging New Yorkers into deeper economic inequality and depression.
Other supporters, holding signs that said, ‘Amazon Delivers ICE’, charged Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the computational powerhouse behind the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). AWS also hosts the Palantir-designed Investigative Case Management system ICE used to track and target people for deportation. According to a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) solicitation document , without continued access to AWS, “DHS and CBP would experience catastrophic, nation-wide outage impacts.”
“I fully support everyone who is demanding better from my company’s leadership outside of Amazon offices today,” said a Manhattan-based software engineer in AWS who has worked at Amazon for 5 years. “I don’t want to see my work be used to enable violence or deportation, and I’m extremely concerned about Amazon not meeting its climate commitments because of a massive data center buildout. Workers should absolutely be fighting back, we can only have a better future if corporations are accountable to their workers and surrounding communities.”
Amazon tech workers and community members also picketed in opposition to the company’s powering of war, through its $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli military, called Project Nimbus , as well as Amazon Web Services’ powering of Palantir’s Maven military targeting system, and Anthropic Claude, both of which have been implicated in US attacks against Venezuela and Iran.
“Amazon is powering our fascist police state on the backs of working New Yorkers. They’re rolling in money extracted from their rigged system of exploitation, monopoly, and surveillance. On International Workers’ Day, we stand together to say enough is enough. Today, we remind one of the richest corporations in the world that we won’t stop fighting until Amazon pays a living wage, keeps workers safe on the job, and divests from a system that targets and terrorizes immigrant New Yorkers,” said Daisy Chung, ALIGN Campaigns Director.
New Yorkers at the picket said that while Amazon continues to profit, they are paying the price, through low wages, job insecurity, surveillance, and environmental harm. They marched and picketed Amazon this May Day to send a message that the monopoly corporation cannot build its empire on exploitation, surveillance, and displacement without resistance.