Support and site lead jobs pay a few dollars more and get you off the floor, but few workers are able to climb up the hierarchy. If one doesn’t move out, one might try to make the best of things and move up. The turnover in an Amazon warehouse ranges from 2-3% a week, or over 106% a year in a ‘normal’ facility. They bounce from one job to another in search of something better. Workers resist, albeit by often pursuing individual solutions to collective problems.
Amazon profits from having the highest rate of exploitation in the industry, paying average retail industry wages to workers who are far more productive. Managers received productivity bonuses, while we got injured or fired. During my year in an Amazon sortation center outside of Seattle, the rate increased by more than 50%. This rate is constantly pushed higher as new rounds of workers are hired and fired. The “rate” of work is set for each job at a pace that only 75% of workers are able to meet. Resembling the factory line, the pace of work is dictated by the complex algorithms, robots and surveillance systems that discipline worker movements down to the second. Rather than retail workers distributed across the city – say a worker folding clothes in a mall or stocking books in a local bookstore – Amazon has reorganized the retail process into retail factories with thousands of workers in each fulfillment center. The worker demands relate to the way Amazon has radically transformed retail work. In a period where union membership is less than 10% in the United States – by far the lowest in the developed world – this strike by non-union Amazon workers demonstrates that workers want a union and are willing to fight for one. This action, although small, holds momentous importance. They were demanding a less punishing pace of work and the elimination of temporary jobs. This was the first major strike action by Amazon workers in the United States. In response, Amazon sent a statement to Bloomberg: "The fact is Amazon offers already what asking for, and we invite anyone to see for themselves by taking a tour of the facility." In addition, Amazon told Fox Business it has “great employment opportunities with excellent pay - ranging from $16.25 to $20.80 an hour, and comprehensive benefits including health care, up to 20 weeks parental leave, paid education, promotional opportunities and more.O n 15 July 2019 Amazon fulfillment workers outside Minneapolis in the suburb of Shakopee walked off the job for six hours, joining workers across Europe in an Amazon Prime Day strike. "They’re very quick to let people go who can’t meet those objectives."
“Amazon is widely reported to have very strict working conditions for people on the floor," Marc Wulfraat, who works at a supply chain and logistics consulting firm that monitors Amazon, tells USA Today. The company's failure to turn temps into permanent employees is also an issue. The organizers are " Protesting the company’s decision to offer one-day shipping to Prime members, which they say place unreasonable stress on already overworked employees who each put out hundreds of orders per hour," Vox reports. “We want to take the opportunity to talk about what it takes to make that work happen and put pressure on Amazon to protect us and provide safe, reliable jobs.” “Amazon is going to be telling one story about itself, which is they can ship a Kindle to your house in one day, isn’t that wonderful,” said William Stolz, Amazon employee and one of the strike organizers, tells the paper. Some of Amazon's engineers will also be flying out from Seattle to join the strikers in a show of solidarity.
According to Bloomberg, workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota plan on a six-hour work stoppage on July 15, to coincide with Prime Day. Shoppers are greatly anticipating Amazon's annual Prime Day sales, but not everyone is so excited. Workers at the fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota are planning to strike during the event to push for better working conditions.The company is anticipating a busy shopping day. Amazon is hosting its annual Amazon Prime Day starting on July 15, 2019.
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