On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Amazon's labor practices. Amazon workers are planning to strike in a Minnesota fulfillment center next Monday, the first day of Prime Day, and one of Amazon’s busiest shopping days.
They are demanding safe, reliable jobs, full-time employment, and an end to retaliation. Bloomberg reports that some Amazon engineers plan to join the strike and demand the company take action on climate change.
Guests:
Zach Freed, researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Community-Scaled Economy Initiative, where he focuses on ending concentrated private economic power
Max Zahn, freelance reporter who wrote the ‘Colony of Hell’: 911 Calls From Inside Amazon Warehouses for the Daily Beast.
Meg Brady, fulfillment associate at Amazon warehouse MSP1 in Shakopee, Minnesota
Web Resources:
Verge: How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’
Guardian: 'We are not robots': Amazon warehouse employees push to unionize
EDITORIAL NOTE: This show says both that Amazon workers' quota is 600 packages a day and 600 packages an hour. The correct quota is 600 packages an hour. Confirmed by Meg Brady, fulfillment associate at an Amazon warehouse.