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temp workers at Amazon

Workers from temporary agencies are in a more precarious situation. They are under pressure to work hard (should they want to "qualify" for permanent employment) and can be sacked easily. Some of them have been active in the union, and IP has tried to get them involved by addressing their specific …

—p.103 Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland (96) missing author
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solidarity between German and Polish workers at Amazon

Before a strike in Germany in June 2015, the management the Poznań warehouse announced one hour of overtime during the upcoming strike day across the border. Workers in Poznań were already aware that Amazon tried to bypass and undermine strikes in Germany by shifting orders between warehouses (in t…

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Amazon's illegitimate "extra breaks"

Amazon allows workers to log into a system that monitors each worker's performance, and the data is used to set their obligatory work rates, such as the demanded number of products scanned per hour. As long as they do not do anything that can be registered in the system (like "scanning goods") the …

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Amazon's illegitimate "extra breaks"

Amazon allows workers to log into a system that monitors each worker's performance, and the data is used to set their obligatory work rates, such as the demanded number of products scanned per hour. As long as they do not do anything that can be registered in the system (like "scanning goods") the …

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on migrants and remittances

Words like ‘refugee’ (and even ‘migrant’) mislead. They reduce people to categories that suggest powerlessness. It is as if the person on the road in these caravans or on the boats in the Mediterranean Sea are to be pitied (if you are a person of sensitive disposition) or hated (if you are a person…

Tricontinental You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well by Vijay Prashad