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Amazon India Workers Take Oath To Finish Task Before Toilet Break: Report
Amazon India finds itself under scrutiny after allegations of harsh working conditions and stringent productivity demands surfaced from workers at its warehouses in Haryana's industrial hub of Manesar.
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How 10-Minute Delivery Apps Are Challenging Amazon, Flipkart In E-Commerce
In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes. Their speed is tracked by the seconds on a screen that flashes red warnings for slowness.
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Amazon Fined $34 Million In France For "Excessive" Surveillance Of Workers
France's data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon's French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system to keep track of staff performance.
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Amazon Employee Fired After He Complained About Lifting Heavy Boxes On TikTok
The video in question was posted on December 6 where he said that he worked an extra shift and was given the job of a picker at Amazon warehouse.
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Amazon Still Seems Hell Bent on Turning Workers Into Robots - Here’s a Better Way Forward
Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.
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Amazon Staff In UK Claims Their Toilet Breaks Were Timed
Two Amazon workers said that the robots in the warehouse "are treated better than us".
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"Make Amazon Pay" Protests In 40 Countries Threaten Black Friday Sales
Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers across about 40 countries plan to take part in protests and walkouts to coincide with Black Friday sales, one of the busiest days of the year for online shopping.
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Amazon Suspends at Least 50 Workers After Employees Protested Against Fire Incident
Amazon has suspended at least 50 warehouse employees who refused to work their shifts following a trash compactor fire at one of its New York facilities, according to union organisers. The company suspended the workers, with pay, on Tuesday, a day after the fire disrupted operations at the Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this...
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Amazon Increases Hourly Wages for US Warehouse, Transportation Workers Ahead of Peak Gifting Season
Amazon on Wednesday announced that it had raised the average hourly pay for warehouse and transportation workers in the US to $19 (roughly Rs. 1,560). According to Amazon, the pay hikes will cost the company $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,200 crore) crore over the coming year. The e-commerce giant's decision comes ahead of the peak gifting season in the...
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Amazon Workers in Upstate New York File Petition to Conduct Union Election
Amazon workers in upstate New York have filed a petition to fight for a union election. The petition was filed for the warehouse known as ALB1, located in the town of Schodack. If the agency approves, it will sort out dates and times for an election between the company and the Amazon Labor Union, which pulled off a union win on Staten Island, New Y...
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Amazon Workers at UK Warehouse Walk Out Over Pay Discontent, Says Union
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Tilbury in southeast England have walked out in protest over pay, the trade union GMB said. The rising cost-of-living sparks strikes across sectors. GMB said 800 workers walked out of the warehouse on Wednesday and Thursday over a 35 pence per hour pay increase, with the union seeking a $2.44 (nearly Rs. 195) rise.
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Amazon Issued 13,000 Disciplinary Notices at Single US Warehouse, States Court Filing
Amazon’s internal documents reveal how the company measured workers’ performance in minute detail and issued more than 13,000 so-called “disciplines” in a single US warehouse alone, according to one lawyer for Amazon. The facility had about 5,300 employees around that time. In its statement, Amazon said these write-ups did not accurately re...
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Amazon, Union Group Said to Face Off in a Rematch Election in New York
Amazon and the group that successfully organized the company’s first-ever US union are headed for a rematch. A federal labour board will tally votes cast by warehouse workers in yet another election on Staten Island.
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Amazon Workers Sustained Half of Recorded US Warehouse Injuries in 2021: Unions
Nearly half of all US warehouse injuries recorded in 2021 occurred at Amazon, according to a report by a coalition of unions. US Amazon workers sustained more than 34,000 serious injuries on the job last year.
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Amazon's First-Ever Union Overcomes Hurdles, Faces New Ones
When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle.
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Amazon India Workers Take Oath To Finish Task Before Toilet Break: Report
Amazon India finds itself under scrutiny after allegations of harsh working conditions and stringent productivity demands surfaced from workers at its warehouses in Haryana's industrial hub of Manesar.
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How 10-Minute Delivery Apps Are Challenging Amazon, Flipkart In E-Commerce
In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes. Their speed is tracked by the seconds on a screen that flashes red warnings for slowness.
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Amazon Fined $34 Million In France For "Excessive" Surveillance Of Workers
France's data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon's French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system to keep track of staff performance.
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Amazon Employee Fired After He Complained About Lifting Heavy Boxes On TikTok
The video in question was posted on December 6 where he said that he worked an extra shift and was given the job of a picker at Amazon warehouse.
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Amazon Still Seems Hell Bent on Turning Workers Into Robots - Here’s a Better Way Forward
Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.
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Amazon Staff In UK Claims Their Toilet Breaks Were Timed
Two Amazon workers said that the robots in the warehouse "are treated better than us".
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"Make Amazon Pay" Protests In 40 Countries Threaten Black Friday Sales
Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers across about 40 countries plan to take part in protests and walkouts to coincide with Black Friday sales, one of the busiest days of the year for online shopping.
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Amazon Suspends at Least 50 Workers After Employees Protested Against Fire Incident
Amazon has suspended at least 50 warehouse employees who refused to work their shifts following a trash compactor fire at one of its New York facilities, according to union organisers. The company suspended the workers, with pay, on Tuesday, a day after the fire disrupted operations at the Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this...
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Amazon Increases Hourly Wages for US Warehouse, Transportation Workers Ahead of Peak Gifting Season
Amazon on Wednesday announced that it had raised the average hourly pay for warehouse and transportation workers in the US to $19 (roughly Rs. 1,560). According to Amazon, the pay hikes will cost the company $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,200 crore) crore over the coming year. The e-commerce giant's decision comes ahead of the peak gifting season in the...
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Amazon Workers in Upstate New York File Petition to Conduct Union Election
Amazon workers in upstate New York have filed a petition to fight for a union election. The petition was filed for the warehouse known as ALB1, located in the town of Schodack. If the agency approves, it will sort out dates and times for an election between the company and the Amazon Labor Union, which pulled off a union win on Staten Island, New Y...
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Amazon Workers at UK Warehouse Walk Out Over Pay Discontent, Says Union
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Tilbury in southeast England have walked out in protest over pay, the trade union GMB said. The rising cost-of-living sparks strikes across sectors. GMB said 800 workers walked out of the warehouse on Wednesday and Thursday over a 35 pence per hour pay increase, with the union seeking a $2.44 (nearly Rs. 195) rise.
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Amazon Issued 13,000 Disciplinary Notices at Single US Warehouse, States Court Filing
Amazon’s internal documents reveal how the company measured workers’ performance in minute detail and issued more than 13,000 so-called “disciplines” in a single US warehouse alone, according to one lawyer for Amazon. The facility had about 5,300 employees around that time. In its statement, Amazon said these write-ups did not accurately re...
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Amazon, Union Group Said to Face Off in a Rematch Election in New York
Amazon and the group that successfully organized the company’s first-ever US union are headed for a rematch. A federal labour board will tally votes cast by warehouse workers in yet another election on Staten Island.
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Amazon Workers Sustained Half of Recorded US Warehouse Injuries in 2021: Unions
Nearly half of all US warehouse injuries recorded in 2021 occurred at Amazon, according to a report by a coalition of unions. US Amazon workers sustained more than 34,000 serious injuries on the job last year.
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Amazon's First-Ever Union Overcomes Hurdles, Faces New Ones
When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle.
