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But if Prime Day means deals for consumers, it has a different valence for the hundreds of thousands of people who work in Amazon’s warehouses. For those people, Prime Day means mandatory overtime, with shifts extended from ten to twelve hours, or extra ...[Read more]
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Central to Trader Joe’s corporate image is the idea that it is a vaguely progressive alternative to corporate grocery chains. But my time working at Trader Joe’s during the COVID-19 pandemic exposed how little the chain cared about the safety of worke ...[Read more]
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Amazon is dictating the hygiene and monitoring the social media posts of drivers that it’s contracting from other small companies, new documents show. The policies are part of a litany of strict guidelines that recent reporting has found Amazon workers ...[Read more]
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Last week, as part of a public relations attempt to combat negative media coverage amid a high-stakes union election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the company's official "Amazon News" Twitter account defended its working conditions. "You don’t real ...[Read more]
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Trump's financial interests clearly lie in milking the GOP faithful for all he can, as quickly as he can. ...[Read more]
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The head of the Center for Independent Employees is paid $3,200 per day to thwart what could become Amazon’s first unionized facility in the U.S. ...[Read more]
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Americans have it worse than all other developed nations when it comes to benefits for workers, according to a new ranking.
The U.S. places last relative to its national policies around healthcare, unemployment, retirement, parental leave, and paid vacati ...[Read more]
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Drivers are being asked to deliver up to 200 parcels a day for Amazon while earning less than the minimum wage, a Sunday Mirror investigation reveals today.
I hopped in a white van to spend a day with one driver and experience first-hand the intolerable p ...[Read more]
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It has been a year since workers at the largest Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline were found camping out in tents in the woods, unable to afford rising rents. Once again the Amazon warehouse is back in the news. ...[Read more]
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Amazon workers are so exhausted by long hours and relentless targets they are falling asleep on their feet, according to a new investigation. Employees reportedly had timed toilet breaks, a claim denied by the company.
Some were made to do compulsory ov ...[Read more]
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