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60 Amazon Workers Walked Out Over Warehouse Working Conditions
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 workersmostly women of Somali descentdemanded 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 companys history.
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 workersmostly women of Somali descentdemanded 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 companys history.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7qny/60-amazon-workers-walked-out-over-warehouse-working-conditions
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60 Amazon Workers Walked Out Over Warehouse Working Conditions (Original Post)
PoliticAverse
Oct 2019
OP
Yet another example of why health insurance should be separate from employment. n/t
PoliticAverse
Oct 2019
#2
3Hotdogs
(12,462 posts)1. 30 hour cap is so they don't have to pay health insurance.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. Yet another example of why health insurance should be separate from employment. n/t
dlk
(11,600 posts)3. The new millennium sweatshop...