Amazon warehouse workers organized to demand PTO and coronavirus clinched it

Amazon warehouse workers organized to demand PTO and coronavirus clinched it

4 years ago
Anonymous $9CO2RSACsf

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/24/amazon-warehouse-workers-organized-to-demand-pto-and-coronavirus-clinched-it/

Amazon never tires of explaining how great it is to work at one of its warehouses, but as usual the actual employees tell a different story. This particular group of Chicago workers was fed up with the company failing to provide paid time off or vacation it promised to part-time workers. They organized; Amazon resisted; And at last, the coronavirus acted as tiebreaker.

It’s an interesting first-hand story from workers being exploited by a business and working to change that —  I say exploited not because the work is hard and the pay low, though that’s true too, but because they had to fight to get basic considerations and resources from a company claiming to value their health and welfare.