Don't do Amazon.....
Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.
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Amazon
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here lets really get this going, careful now, unions, a voice for workers.
let the hate begin.
damn there's a lot of igonorance and misunderstanding in the comments on that twitter feed.
Amazon’s famous speed and technological innovation have driven the company’s massive global expansion and a valuation well over $800 billion. It’s also helped make Amazon the nation’s second-largest private employer behind Walmart and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, one of the richest humans on Earth. Now, an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found that the company’s obsession with speed has turned its warehouses into injury mills.
“According to Amazon’s own records, the risk of work injuries at fulfillment centers is alarmingly, unacceptably high,” said David Michaels, former head of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, now a professor at George Washington University’s public health school. “Amazon needs to take a hard look at the facilities where so many workers are being hurt and either redesign the work processes, replace the top managers or both, because serious injury rates this high should not be acceptable to any employer.”
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/amazons-labor-abuses-are-more-appalling-than-you-think/
This holiday season, think of an alternative.
Posted by: JBV
why does none of this surprise me...
The post doesn't surprise me either.
Posted by: switch
Posted by: JBV
why does none of this surprise me...
The post doesn't surprise me either.
I'm not surprised.
If's it is useful and convenient it seems like it is probably evil... but it's so convenient! but evil too. I'll fight the man after Christmas.
Everyone should be able to enjoy the benefits of digital technologies and online commerce without having to sacrifice our rights and liberties, health and planet, or hopes and dreams.
But billionaire corporations like Amazon rig the rules so only they can prosper. They threaten our ability to earn a good living and live a good life.
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy. We’re going to write new rules so that our economy puts people first, our public officials ensure that no corporation is above the law or too big to govern — and that our democracy, finally, represents all of us.
Amazon getting gubmint subsidies is not right.
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Posted by: Stuminator
Amazon getting gubmint subsidies is not right.
Any corp getting subsidies is not right, unless they're startups that have a large upside.
Is it socialism if corporations treat human lives as an expendable cost, to be shared amoungst society?
Posted by: ReductiMat
Posted by: Stuminator
Amazon getting gubmint subsidies is not right.
Any corp getting subsidies is not right, unless they're startups that have a large upside.
Apparently Tesla gets a lot of government subsidies.
Posted by: Stuminator
Posted by: ReductiMat
Posted by: Stuminator
Amazon getting gubmint subsidies is not right.
Any corp getting subsidies is not right, unless they're startups that have a large upside.
Apparently Tesla gets a lot of government subsidies.
Hopefully not as much as the oil and gas industry. That's costing us way too much as it stands.
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