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You wrote "But the good thing about an Amazon warehouse, is you're not standing next to a heat-treating oven, sweating your bag off." Quoting from http://www.p
by dalke 12y ago
You wrote "But the good thing about an Amazon warehouse, is you're not standing next to a heat-treating oven, sweating your bag off."
Quoting from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393303,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393303,00.asp :
> One worker, 34-year-old Elmer Goris, said that on hot days, he saw co-workers being brought out of the non-air conditioned facility in wheelchairs and on stretchers by paramedics. Temperatures inside the Lehigh Valley warehouse reached above 100 degrees on some hot days, according to The Morning Call.
> Goris said warehouse managers refused to open the facility's doors on hot days to let more air circulate through the space, citing theft prevention as the reason at meetings with employees. ...
> But brutal summer working conditions were not the only grievance with Amazon voiced by the workers at the Lehigh Valley warehouse.
> They say that Amazon and local temp agency Integrity Staffing Solutions took advantage of high unemployment in the area to churn through a steady stream of temporary employees who were promised a path to permanent work with benefits that rarely materialized.
You wrote: "You're not outside in the freezing cold. You're not standing around in a meat freezer hacking away at a side of beef with a giant knife"
Quoting from http://articles.mcall.com/2011-11-05/news/mc-allentown-amazon-cold-20111105_1_warehouse-workers-amazon-s-lehigh-valley-warehouse-managers http://articles.mcall.com/2011-11-05/news/mc-allentown-amazo... , regarding the same warehouse:
> Multiple warehouse workers were treated at hospitals for exposure after being outside, without coats, in temperatures below freezing for prolonged periods, including one night for about two hours, according to OSHA records.
> Workers interviewed said Amazon forced them to remain huddled in the parking lot on frigid nights while many workers were wearing only shorts and T-shirts. After attendance was taken to make sure all employees evacuated, warehouse workers said they were not allowed to go to their cars to keep warm. Instead, they were instructed by warehouse managers to use one another's body heat and told that anyone caught going to their cars would be disciplined and could be terminated, workers said.
"Pretty cushy"?