In the third installment of The Amazon Diaries, a worker describes the madness that is the six-week ‘peak’ season
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This episode starts in earnest with the simple idea that the online megaretailer Amazon is bad for regular folks. It kills the people working there, such as workplace accident victim turned Marxist lecturer Josh.
For the last two years, Amazon has quietly expanded its presence in Shakopee, and worker resentment towards conditions there has grown with it, culminating in today’s protest outside fulfillment center MSP1
“Unfulfilled” focuses on the arrival of an Amazon Fulfillment Center in South Park, and the fallout it causes. Things get miserable pretty quickly.
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Labor organizers and researchers said they had not heard of Amazon previously coming to the table after worker pressure, even for private discussions. Last week, Amazon offered some compromises at its facilities in the Minneapolis area.
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