Imagine if you were an undercover worker at an Amazon facility. What would you find? The warehouse would probably be busy but, overall, an okay experience, right? I mean, the largest corporation in the world would have decent wages and working conditions?
Well, maybe not.
According to the article I list below (and numerous other websites), ambulances have been called to UK Amazon warehouses many times—600 occasions over the last three years.
So, the working conditions are not desirable at UK Amazon warehouse, but it must be better at other locations in other countries?
Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case as workers at Chinese facilities are finding similar working conditions but worse, much worse. Workers there work long hours with little breaks and for a low wage.
But at least there’s overtime! No, sadly, the workers do not receive time and a half payment.
How do we know this is happening?
There was an undercover worker sent in by the “US-based labour rights investigator China Labor Watch to find out what is going on behind the security gate.”
What did she uncover? Well, for starters, I wouldn’t work there but for many people they don’t have a choice. They need the money to survive.
Why do large businesses do this to workers? It’s simple—because they can.
