"WE ARE NOT ROBOTS": AMAZON EMPLOYEES PUSH TO UNIONIZE
Workers announced the launch of union push in response to working conditions as the company says it does not recognize allegations.
As amazon's workforce has more than doubled over the past three years, workers at AMAZON'S warehouses in the united states have started raising their voice and pushing towards forming a union to fight back against the company's treatment of its employees.
Amazon's global workforce reached more than 61,3000 employees worldwide, not including the 100,000 temporary employees the company hired for the holiday season.
Just a few months after Amazon opened its first New york-based fulfillment center in Staten Island, workers want to launch union push with help from the retail, wholesale and Department store union.
One of the workers who is working for two years in the company remarks "They overwork you and you're like a number to them. During peak season and prime season, they give you 60 hours a week. In July, I had a prime week and worked 60 hours. the same day I would overtime, I got into a bad car accident because I was falling asleep behind the wheel."
One Amazon employee in Staten Island said: "Right now, at that fulfillment center, if an employee is a picker, they want that person to pick up 400 items per hour, picking each item every seven seconds."
To keep up with that hourly rate, workers cannot take bathrooms breaks or they risk time off task point that could be used to justify job termination. Employees are overworked, pressured with frivolous disciplinary actions and security lines at the exit cut into breaks and extended work shifts, unpaid.
They are not robots. they are human beings. they cannot come into work after only four hours of sleep and be expected to be fully energized and ready to work. One employee said,
"If you get injured, they don't treat you well, they don't care." I get to know that every two to three months, Amazon increases hourly productivity rates workers must meet to keep their jobs.
Amazon do not provide a conducive work environment, during summertime, employees don't get enough AC, In the winter they don't get enough heat. like this AMAZON is Exploiting its employees and doing unethical practices.
Workers announced the launch of union push in response to working conditions as the company says it does not recognize allegations.
As amazon's workforce has more than doubled over the past three years, workers at AMAZON'S warehouses in the united states have started raising their voice and pushing towards forming a union to fight back against the company's treatment of its employees.
Amazon's global workforce reached more than 61,3000 employees worldwide, not including the 100,000 temporary employees the company hired for the holiday season.
Just a few months after Amazon opened its first New york-based fulfillment center in Staten Island, workers want to launch union push with help from the retail, wholesale and Department store union.
One of the workers who is working for two years in the company remarks "They overwork you and you're like a number to them. During peak season and prime season, they give you 60 hours a week. In July, I had a prime week and worked 60 hours. the same day I would overtime, I got into a bad car accident because I was falling asleep behind the wheel."
One Amazon employee in Staten Island said: "Right now, at that fulfillment center, if an employee is a picker, they want that person to pick up 400 items per hour, picking each item every seven seconds."
To keep up with that hourly rate, workers cannot take bathrooms breaks or they risk time off task point that could be used to justify job termination. Employees are overworked, pressured with frivolous disciplinary actions and security lines at the exit cut into breaks and extended work shifts, unpaid.
They are not robots. they are human beings. they cannot come into work after only four hours of sleep and be expected to be fully energized and ready to work. One employee said,
"If you get injured, they don't treat you well, they don't care." I get to know that every two to three months, Amazon increases hourly productivity rates workers must meet to keep their jobs.
Amazon do not provide a conducive work environment, during summertime, employees don't get enough AC, In the winter they don't get enough heat. like this AMAZON is Exploiting its employees and doing unethical practices.
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ReplyDeleteI was hoping someone would raise such important ethical issue...voices of amazon employees should be raised and supported by us. They need proper facilities to work. Nice writing.
ReplyDeleteA very important issue in society the voice of poors are suppressed. Working day and night for the company and not paying them extra is unfair and unethical behavior by Amazon... According to me extra pay should be given to workers who are working extra...
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