“It’s very rare to walk into a warehouse in any industry at all and see a million units being shipped,” Marc Wulfraat, a longtime consultant in the logistics industry who runs the consulting firm MWPVL International, told Vox last year. The company pushes workers to a pace that breaks down their bodies, influencing the productivity metrics and robotics of competitors like Walmart and Target. sustained nearly 39,000 injuries in 2022, according to the Strategic Organizing Center, and the injury rate at Amazon warehouses is 70 percent higher than other warehouses. Amazon says it employs 20,000 workers in Michigan across 20 facilities.
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That number doesn’t include 275,000 Amazon delivery drivers who are nominally employed by contractors through the company’s Delivery Service Partner program. Safety is a top issue among Amazon’s 1.6 million employees worldwide. “We invited them to extend their picket line to Michigan because this is one fight.” PRIMED FOR INJURY That strike “shows that workers can fight back against this company,” said Pontiac warehouse worker Nick White in a press release. Those drivers have been on strike for three weeks, during which time they have picketed nine Amazon facilities around the country. They were joined by Amazon delivery drivers from Palmdale, California, who recently organized with the Teamsters. She and her co-workers walked out after Amazon retaliated by refusing to accommodate her when she sustained an injury on the job. “We are demanding a safe work environment where we are not straining, pulling muscles from lifting heavy packages, or tripping over boxes falling off the conveyor belt,” said Alicia Ozier, one of the strikers at the delivery station. The crush of Prime Day puts even more pressure on workers to keep up with conveyor belts overflowing with boxes that can weigh as much as 50 pounds. This year’s “Prime Day” shopping bonanza July 11 and 12 set a record for the largest sales day in Amazon’s history. In the middle of Amazon’s Prime Day promotional sales rush, 60 warehouse workers walked out for more than three hours at its delivery station in Pontiac, Michigan-bringing the facility to the brink of a total shutdown.Ī delivery station is the last warehouse an Amazon package passes through before it is loaded into a truck or van en route to the customer.
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