60 Amazon Workers Walked Out Over Warehouse Working Conditions

[PoliticAverse]

They are asking for better pay on the night shift and better working conditions. It's the second work stoppage at a Minnesota fulfillment center in the last two months.

Late Wednesday night, roughly 60 Amazon warehouse workers in yellow vests walked out of a delivery center in Egan, Minnesota and stood outside in the near-freezing rain waving protest signs. The workers—mostly women of Somali descent—demanded increased wages on the night shift, weight restrictions on boxes, and the reversal of a 30-hour weekly workload cap from their managers.

The strike arrives during a period of increased worker activism at Amazon among both white and blue collar workers. On September 30, workers at an Amazon delivery center in Sacramento formed a group called Amazonians United Sacramento to protest the firing of an employee who went an hour over on her bereavement leave after her mother-in-law died. Two weeks ago, more than 1,000 Amazon employees staged the first white collar walkout in the company’s history.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7qny/60-amazon-workers-walked-out-over-warehouse-working-conditions

[3Hotdogs]

1. 30 hour cap is so they don't have to pay health insurance.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Yet another example of why health insurance should be separate from employment. n/t

[dlk]

3. The new millennium sweatshop...