Posted on 07/15/2019 7:57:21 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Amazon workers at a Minnesota warehouse are temporarily going on strike Monday, the first of two Prime Day summer sales, the Daily Beast reported.
Employees at the Shakopee, Minn., Amazon Fulfillment center said they will walk out out for a six-hour period overlapping with the morning and evening shifts.
The workers argue Amazon has failed to meet their demands, including converting more temp positions to Amazon employees and permanently easing productivity quotas that workers say make their jobs unsafe.
Several workers are traveling from Seattle to join the protests outside of Minneapolis, according to a statement from Amazon Employees For Climate Justice.
Amazon has disputed the employees' allegations about working conditions. The online retailer said that on average, 90 percent of associates at the Shakopee fulfillment center are full-time employees and more than 30 have been offered full-time positions recently.
Prime Day, a global two-day discount of hundreds of products, is one of Amazon's busiest promotions.
Unions in Spain and Germany have staged Prime Day strikes in the past, but the walkout in Minnesota represents the first major action of its kind in the U.S. during the sales event.
White House hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) backed the striking workers Monday.
"I fully support Amazon workers' Prime Day strike," the Massachusetts senator tweeted. "Their fight for safe and reliable jobs is another reminder that we must come together to hold big corporations accountable."
They say Bezos got on tone of those planes with Epstein and underage girls.
Oh, and one of the Google founders, too —BRIN.
FIRE every one of them. NOT ELIGIBLE FOR REHIRE.....
Move to China and work for Foxconn...
Amazon can, of course, choose to fire them. But Amazon might have a hard time replacing them all.
Bunch of big whiney babies. They’re paid higher wages than most low skilled part time workers. They knew the pay when they showed up on their first day of work. There’s a really neat thing about working (or pretending to work) in America, they’re FREE to quit any time they wish.
That said, I don’t like Amazon and don’t shop with them.
About that part time vs. full time workers, well, they can thank the Kenyan for that.
I humbly disagree.
As long as Jeff Bezos uses his resources to prop-up Democrats (the NY Slimes, investing big bucks in NY and DC) he deserves to REAP what he’s SOWN.
Yep. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
THIS!
I would like to know what the demographics are in that warehouse. How many are Somalis.
I know several people (five who work at three different Amazon warehouses) and every single one of them have told me that the conditions are NOT an issue!
It is the lazy, lay-about types that want to check their phones every few minutes instead of work for their paychecks that complain about the job and conditions!
With limited exceptions, I have no problem with private sector employees going on strike. From what I have read, Amazon deserves to have a union.
Since it’s Minnesota there are likely a lot of Somalis working there. They likely want to have paid prayer breaks where they can spend company time washing their feet and lifting their butts in the air.
That is what the Somalis in Seattle who sued Hertz years ago wanted. They were let go unless they agreed not to use company time for their Islam crap. They all quit and then tried to sue to get their jobs back with the perks they wanted.
They lost. Once in the first trial and lost again on appeal.
“From what I hear, working conditions at Amazon locations can be atrocious.”
yep. warehouse picker jobs are brutal, particularly for amazon. the workers are nothing more than part of a machine, wearing headsets where computer synthesized voices from the machine order them from one bin to another for eight hours a day ... add quotas to that, and the workers have to run all day ... these jobs are far worse than working on an auto assembly line ...
Well look at that! The Trump Economy is soo good that people can afford to give up 6 hours of pay for silly strikes that serve no purpose other then to lose 6 hours of pay!
oh woopdy do. I ran a sheet metal shear full time for a few years and worked for a hard ass Honduran guy that no one else could get along with. I’ve worked in the sign business where I had to climb 50 foot in the air on a ladder truck, climb inside a 130 degree sign in the Florida summer and spend a couple of hours in there. When I didn’t like a job, I quit and found something better.
I’ve been a picker/packer too which is what these warehouse workers are called and also worked a fast paced assembly line as a temp worker where everyone else was getting paid piece work.
With unemployment as low as it is, quit and find something else. Maybe something where you can actually learn something and work your way up to a better job. I learned to convert decimal inches to fractions on that shear job, right down to thousands of an inch. To this day, I still know the decimal equivalent of every 16th of an inch and can figure out 32nds from there. That helped me in the sign business where I eventually became one of the best electric sign fabricators in Ctrl FL. Made signs that went to Disney and Universal Studios. Made $40k in one of my last years, 12 years ago. Went self employed making electric signs wholesale to the trade after that.
Never ever thought about standing in front of a company with a protest sign, whining about conditions. Don’t like the job, they know where the door is.
BTT!
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