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Amazon is an innovator: the company has invented some of the most sophisticated techniques ever seen to avoid taxation, the minimum wage, worker safety, and climate justice.
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They pioneered worker misclassification, allowing them to treat their drivers as independent contractors or even subcontractors to independent contractors, even as they subjected those workers to supervision to rival the most invasive workplaces.
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They summoned into existence the "Mechanical Turks," among the lowest-paid pieceworkers in existence, largely overseas, receiving pennies (or fractional pennies) to backstop "AI" applications, proving that AI really stands for "absent Indians".
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Amazon warehouse union gets tech solidarity; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/19/dea…
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Inside: Amazon warehouse union gets tech solidarity; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/19/dea…
#Pluralistic
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#15yrsago Mysterious birthday ritual at Poe’s graveside disrupted by rubberneckers web.archive.org/web/2006021204…
#15yrsago Nutjob offers $100 bounty to UCLA students who wiretap lefty profs web.archive.org/web/2006021902…
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#15yrsago Nutjob offers $100 bounty to UCLA students who wiretap lefty profs web.archive.org/web/2006021902…
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While many Amazon warehouse workers in Europe have unionized, its brutalized, underpaid, routinely maimed US workforce remains tragically unorganized, thanks to the US's weak labor laws that make forming a union far harder than at any time since the Gilded Age.
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But all that may be about to change: 6000 warehouse workers in #BHM1, the massive Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, AL, will vote next month on a push to unionize under the @RWDSU.
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Amazon, like other tech giants, is absolutely reliant on building and maintaining a competitive advantage by exploiting technology to drive wages ever downward while ducking responsibility for harming workers.
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