Amazon COVER-UP!

[Legion]

Six workers were killed last month because Amazon insisted they keep working during a tornado.

The corporation's poor safety record and sky-high staff turnover are caused by one thing: treating people as disposable is better for Amazon’s profits.



https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/amazon-warehouse-tornado-edwardsville-illinois-deaths

[Hawkeye10]

Six workers were killed last month because Amazon insisted they keep working during a tornado.

The corporation's poor safety record and sky-high staff turnover are caused by one thing: treating people as disposable is better for Amazon’s profits.



https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/amazon-warehouse-tornado-edwardsville-illinois-deaths

Cant be, I see tons of commercials on the internet from Amazon about how much they care about their employees.

[Mason Michaels]

Nowhere has Amazon caused more distress than right here at JPP.
When we were invaded by the Amazonian
masses and their war,that they brought with them!

[Legion]

Nowhere has Amazon caused more distress than right here at JPP. When we were invaded by the Amazonian masses and their war,that they brought with them!

It's been said that confession is good for the soul. But you don't have one.

Now, back to the topic:

A recurring complaint from Amazon warehouse and delivery workers has been the feeling that they are completely disposable.

Amazon has a nationwide weekly turnover rate of 3 percent, or roughly thirty thousand employees — equivalent to a total replacement of all its hourly workers every eight months.

While many companies consider high turnover costly, Amazon’s workplace is designed for rapidly replacing workers.

Jeff Bezos famously called an entrenched workforce a “march to mediocrity.”

Rapid turnover also benefits Amazon’s bottom line by making long-term strategies like unionizing more difficult and stopping employees from accessing the benefits accrued over time, repeatedly touted by company spokespersons as an advantage of working there.




https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/amazon-warehouse-tornado-edwardsville-illinois-deaths

[archives]

Is there a point to this thread?

[Legion]

Poor Anchovies.

High turnover thus accelerates a race to the bottom whereby wages get repeatedly reset to their starting point.

In a practice being mainstreamed by Amazon, workers, after their first year of employment, are offered increasing sums of cash up front if they choose to quit.

In 2019, to make the point clearer, Amazon hired around 770,000 new hourly workers but had fired or lost more than 660,000 of them by the year’s end.

By all accounts, these trends have only accelerated. And that’s not to mention the fate of part-time employees.

The politics and policy of disposability can also be seen, specifically, in the death of these six workers inside the Edwardsville warehouse.

Theories of disposability were popularized by critical race scholars to describe how structural violence operates to abandon racialized populations, killing by neglect.

Disposability politics asks how we can understand Morrow and his coworkers’ deaths as an outcome Amazon allowed, expected, and predicted.


https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/amazon-warehouse-tornado-edwardsville-illinois-deaths

[Hawkeye10]

Is there a point to this thread?

RustyRockets is pretty awesome is a good point!

Jordan Peterson called him one of the most interesting smartest people he has ever met, and he should know!

[Legion]

Natural disasters such as this tornado cannot themselves be controlled.

But they are predictable and, in fact, predicted. Far from this being a freak accident, Illinois weathers an average of fifty-four tornadoes each year, and it’s located on the border of what’s known as “tornado alley.”

When Amazon decided to construct this Edwardsville facility in 2018, it was always a question of when, not if, a tornado would hit.

During a press conference the following Monday, Amazon’s senior vice president of global delivery serviced, John Felton, said “all procedures were followed correctly.”

In a sense, he was right: it is company procedure to keep scores of workers on-site during natural disasters; it is company procedure to continue working through severe weather alerts and tornado sirens; and it is company procedure to wait until a tornado has actually touched down before allowing workers to stop working and find shelter.

Poor Anchovies.