Workers Essential was launched in late 2020 in response to reports of worker abuse around the country Now, Amazon DSP drivers are speaking out about their working conditions What follows are excerpts of actual statements made by Amazon delivery drivers working in the state of Iowa
On the human cost of same day delivery:
“There are constantly
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Regardless of the outcome of the unionization campaign in Bessemer, Alabama, the efforts of workers there have delivered a powerful message to the nation
86 years ago, the National Labor Relations Act was passed sending an equally powerful message to companies large and small that workers have inalienable rights of free speech, legally protected concerted activity
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Across the country, Amazon delivery drivers are receiving the message pictured above Within a few weeks of approving the message, they report coming to work to find new cameras installed in their cabs Those who refuse to grant permission are reportedly off boarded (fired)
Drivers report that as awful as the experience has been driving with
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A recent article from Vice Motherboard entitled Amazon Drivers Are Worried About New ‘Customer-Obsessed’ Disciplinary Program exposes just how tenuous job security at Amazon really is
Add to the current frenzied workday of pressured DSP drivers, the fact that Amazon is currently installing AI real time camera monitoring systems inside the cabs, looking
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As more Amazon employees join Workers Essential a growing theme emerges While some like their DSP companies, they almost universally despise Amazon The daily frustration of dysfunctional apps monitoring their every move, computer-generated discipline, and other workers paid to spy or bark orders at them over bullhorns, has created what most describe as a hostile work
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