Amazon staff could walkout at five UK centers on Friday.
Amazon’s Black Friday sales could be severely disrupted by walk-outs over what staff have called ‘inhumane conditions’ at five UK warehouses.
Insiders at the GMB Union have said protests in Rugeley, Milton Keynes, Warrington, Peterborough and Swansea could clash with the shopping surge at the end of this week causing problems for the online giant.
Sources told BuzzFeed News staff have been ‘knocked unconscious’ and suffered broken bones while at work for Amazon.
Staff will be expected to be working hard on Friday as shoppers are expected to scramble for big deals ahead of Christmas
Amazon staff could walkout at five UK centres on Friday. Pictured: Amazon’s fulfillment centre in Swansea, in the run up to Black Friday
However, the online giant said in a statement: ‘Our European Fulfillment Network is fully operational and we continue to focus on delivering for our customers.
‘Any reports to the contrary are simply wrong.’
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From the article:
‘The conditions our members at Amazon are working under are frankly inhumane.
‘They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances.
‘We’re standing up and saying enough is enough, these are people making Amazon its money. People with kids, homes, bills to pay — they’re not robots.’
This is unconscionable! People having to be taken away from their jobs via ambulance because of injuries sustained at work that does not pertain to having been shot or stabbed, as would be the case here in the states.
If the workers are going to do anything at all about the inhumane working conditions at ALL Amazon warehouses, the time to do so would be now especially seeing as how Amazon already has robots in the works to take over those jobs from humans. And those who purchase items via Amazon don’t really care about what workers are put through so long as their shit arrives at their door. The only way people will become outraged en mass is when the shit finally comes home to roost for them as in they lose their job to a robot. As long as others think they are immune to what Amazon warehouse workers are going through, they’ll not give a damn. Sadly, that’s the way it is.
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Another thing I found really sad, Shelby, is the strikes are taking place in Britain – to this point efforts to unionize Amazon workers in the US have been extremely feeble. At the same time, I think Bezos may bankrupt himself by replacing all Amazon workers with robots. According to basic economic theory you can’t squeeze profit out of a machine because there is no surplus value (the difference between the value of a person’s work and what you pay them). The only way he can make a profit is to squeeze the remaining human workers even harder.
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