What BS is that?
Stuff like this already exists everywhere.
The only thing Amazon are doing wrong here imo is charging for the bus (pretty shitty thing to do, other companies do it for free, but whatever, business is business) and not allow staff to sleep in the breakroom between shifts (however I don't know about the facility at the site in question, possible health and safety problems).
This isn't saving Amazon any money (cept maybe on the bus), this is people wanting to earn more money.
#boycottchina
Doesn't every multi-national company hope to have ghettos spring up around their work sites? It lends them a certain credibility as a economic abuser.
where do you see they don't want to work ? they are so desperate to make money by working that they're sleeping in tents on their workplace
people need to stop make it look like "choice" is a magical word where you are in control of absolutely everything in life. you don't have choices when you're poor/uneducated, and even if everyone had a phd you would still need low skill jobs so there is no way you can justify mistreating an entire segment of the workforce on the basis that they're lazy/entitled/uneducated/whatever bs buzzword
amazon makes record profits and pays record lows in taxes. they even managed to obtain tax funded subsidies to open a center in my country. the least they can do is treat their workers fairly
if you WORK any job you should be able to have a decent life
not be paid millions but at least enough to live
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In your mind, how would they treat them better? Other than paying them a higher wage that is, because its a minimum wage no skilled job.
This honestly sounds like the argument that was made in America with McDonalds staff wanting a $15/hour minimum wage, and all thats led to is an increase in automation and faster job losses. As another poster already said in this thread, the Amazon centre near him already uses robots to do the picking.
As for not having choices when your poor and uneducated, I left school with just my GCSEs at 16, went straight into work and currently work as a logistics manager for one of the largest supermarket chains in the UK. You always have choices of where you want to work. Always.
Clickbait article title. It should read "employees are choosing to sleep in tents to save money".
MAGA
When all you do is WIN WIN WIN
It very much depends where you are, now I've no idea what the employment levels are like in that particular area, but there are plenty of places where options are in fact very limited. That they have to travel so far to get to it that camping on site seems desirable, then it would suggest that there isn't that much 'closer to home' at all.
automation would have happened wether or not the min wage changed
it is just very convenient for these industries to wave that threat to avoid regulation in the meantime
and taking you personnal case alone means nothing, especially when unemployment is increasing in almost every country
and it does certainly not mean you did it all by yourself
no matter how i like the idea that everyone could do everything by sheer will and work, its just not that simple in real life
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for no other reason than lack political will to impose decent working conditions
its not like this is something normal and impossible to address