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Originally Posted by Rizla
Here's another very substantial link re: Amazon's exploitative working practices:
UK workforce attacks Amazon
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Even based on the *ten-year-old article* you linked to, they sound like any other warehouse job.
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Staff say strict quotas are imposed with a "picker" forced to select three items a minute from the warehouse's shelves and a "packer" to parcel an average 2.5 orders a minute.
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Maybe this is outrageously high or something, but there's nothing in the article that supports this.
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One employee claimed they were required to push a trolley for what felt like up to 20 miles in a night to fill it with books and CDs named on computer-printed lists. The company said the distance was "nowhere like that".
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Pushing a trolley and filling it with books and CDs from a computerized list doesn't really sound like something from Charles Dickens.
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The 11-hour night shift stretching from 7.30pm to 6.30am includes an unpaid one-hour meal break at 1am and Marston Gate has no canteen, staff taking in their own food or using vending machines. Two shorter rest periods, however, are paid.
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The absence of a canteen doesn't sound particularly abusive, either
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The union said a standard 23 days' holiday included bank holidays, and the pay rate is £5.50 an hour plus a £1 hourly bonus for night staff who are rostered four shifts a week.
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Again, not obviously horrible for warehouse work.