Tag: inequality
How Amazon Exported American Working Conditions To Europe
The quotas are announced every fourth Wednesday. Minimum rates are set each week based on the 80th percentile of performers the previous week; in other words, the bottom fifth of workers had to increase their productivity to avoid a reprimand, which is called “feedback” in company language. As the employee…
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Amazon Is Constructing A Headquarters On Indigenous Land In South Africa. A Court Ordered It To Stop.
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — Amazon arrived in South Africa in 2004, grew its workforce in the country to 4,000 people, which then expanded to 7,000 in 2020, and then in February this year announced another round of job offerings. To house a staff that has become one of the largest in…
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Amazon Workers In New York Say They Were Fired For Union Organizing
An independent worker group, Amazonians United, is alleging that Amazon illegally fired four workers who “supported a labor organization” at a delivery station in Long Island City, Queens, according to charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board last week and obtained through a public records request. The four employees,…
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Unions Are Making A Strong Showing In Elections At Two Amazon Warehouses
As votes in union elections at two different Amazon warehouses are tallied this week, early returns show close counts at both facilities — signs that an organizing effort that has gained steam in recent years is gaining ground against the company’s efforts to keep workers from unionizing. There are no…
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These Strippers Are Protesting For Safer Work Conditions In Hollywood. Instagram “Mistakenly Removed” Their Account.
Reagan was working as a dancer at a Los Angeles strip club called Star Garden before she got into an argument with the club’s bartender who joked about a customer wanting to kill her. “He looked me square in the eyes,” she told BuzzFeed News about the bartender, “and said,…
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“I Had To Return My Vehicle”: Rideshare Drivers Are Struggling To Pay Their Bills Amid Rising Gas Prices
LOS ANGELES — Raul Rivera’s budget stretched thinner and thinner as gas prices rose — from $2.26 a gallon in his native New York City at the start of 2021, to $2.80 last spring, to more than $3 last summer, to around $3.40 through the holidays. As a rideshare driver…
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