Independent reporting has increasingly shown that Amazon owes much of its success to a brutal and systematic strategy of treating its workers like expendable units of production. It is no wonder that momentum is now building behind unionization efforts, just in time for the holiday shopping season.
HANOI – With Britain suffering through its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades – owing to high inflation and soaring energy prices – hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Coventry this month demanded a wage hike. If the demand is not met, they say they will go on strike in November, just ahead of Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. As with other recent labor actions by US rail workers and British Royal Mail employees, the Amazon workers’ move has kicked off a debate about who is to blame for the threatened disruption: the elves in the workshop or Father Christmas?
HANOI – With Britain suffering through its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades – owing to high inflation and soaring energy prices – hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Coventry this month demanded a wage hike. If the demand is not met, they say they will go on strike in November, just ahead of Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. As with other recent labor actions by US rail workers and British Royal Mail employees, the Amazon workers’ move has kicked off a debate about who is to blame for the threatened disruption: the elves in the workshop or Father Christmas?