Amazon warehouse workers and other low-waged workers who are literally keeping us and our economy alive during the pandemic say that their employers are cutting corners, depriving them of PPE, handwashing, sick pay, etc.
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It's especially bad at Amazon warehouses, where workers have staged walkouts to protest unsafe working conditions.
The walkout at Staten Island's JFK8 warehouse was led by Chris Smalls, who has been fired by Amazon.
cnbc.com/2020/03/30/ama…
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The walkout at Staten Island's JFK8 warehouse was led by Chris Smalls, who has been fired by Amazon.
cnbc.com/2020/03/30/ama…
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Amazon claims that Smalls was fired for failing to observe social distancing. Read between the lines and you'll discover that they sent him home because he was a labor leader and insisted that he stay there, using epidemiology as a pretence for illegal labor practices.
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It's funny, you'd think the right would be all over this. After all, the excuse for paying low-waged workers substarvation wages is that the market has set their wage there, because other people are willing to do their jobs if they don't want to.
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And now, no one is willing to do those jobs, so they have a seller's market. When you have a seller's market, capitalists tell you that you should demand all the market will bear. In this case, I think that comes out to sick pay, PPE, and a giant fucking raise.
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