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12 hour shifts on your feet with no access to chairs, consistent 150 F work conditions, 30 minute lunch breaks that take 30 minutes to get to, no paid bathroom
by three_seagrass 6y ago
12 hour shifts on your feet with no access to chairs, consistent 150 F work conditions, 30 minute lunch breaks that take 30 minutes to get to, no paid bathroom breaks, etc. are a few of the examples from this one article alone that are in line with the semantics of sweatshop conditions.
- 300bps 6y agoconsistent 150 F work conditions If she told you there were sharks with lasers on their heads would you have believed that too? The article is literally unbelievable.
- three_seagrass 6y agoNo, but if multiple workers at multiple locations said the same thing, then it is more believable: >"I was really upset and I said, 'All you people care about is the rates, not the well-being of the people,' " she said. "I've never worked for an employer that had paramedics waiting outside for people to drop because of the extreme heat." There were so many reports of workers overheating that OSHA had to get involved: https://www.mcall.com/news/watchdog/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917-story.html https://www.mcall.com/news/watchdog/mc-allentown-amazon-comp... That, along with other conditions reported, make it a literal sweatshop.