Amazon Warehouse Working Conditions
The cluster focuses on debates about Amazon's treatment of warehouse workers, including wages, safety, bathroom breaks, unionization, media coverage, and comparisons to other employers.
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Wait, in this scenario you're envisioning Amazon is doing something for the benefit of their workers?
I guess it would presuppose some solidarity with the workers at AmazonAt a glance: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/study-amazon-workers-serious...<a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-10-25/pain-exhaustion-rampant-among-amazon-warehouse-workers-study-s
Amazon, treat your workers well, or you won't have a business.
See this related article, which suggests that Amazon is dragging down wages for the sector: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-17/amazon-am...Discussed here previously: https://news.
Cue the amazon defenders with their “it’s not that bad amazon is better than working in a coal mine suck-it-up softie”. Humans are not AWS instances. We need bathroom breaks, conversations, time off when a family member dies, and high enough wages we can build our lives and care for the people in them. If your company is not doing that, then it is actively harming the people who make you money - and should be driven out of business.
The biggest problem facing Amazon workers isn't unionization. It is the not having alternatives to earning a similar wage in more humane conditions.
Amazon pays their warehouse workers more than competitors. All the negative reporting about them seem to ignore this fact.
This is why people should stop watching news, because its all pretty much agitprop these days.Amazon has no major issues with worker treatment. Sure, there are bad managers and shittier places to work, as with any big corp, but overall most people are content with work int the warehouses.How do I know this? Prior to COVID, unemployment in US was at a record low, down to the frictional levels. Warehouse positions are entry level jobs. If it was bad, people would just quit, and take another
same reason why amazon warehouse working conditions get so much more media attention compared to everywhere else
Because it's Amazon it feeds the "Amazon mistreats its workers" narrative.