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by chestnut-tree
4584 days ago
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Just watched the BBC programme associated with this story. The goods pickers are treated like automatons. The work is pretty gruelling and pretty demoralising too. Some interesting information in the programme: - The Scottish Government gave Amazon a £6.8 million grant to persuade it to set up shop in Scotland. - The Welsh Government gave Amazon an £8.8 million grant + £4.5 million to build a road for it's distribution centre in Swansea. - Amazon operate a points system for their temporary workers. If you gain three points, you're sacked. A day off sick rewards you with one point penalty. In the programme, the undercover worker was late by two minutes which gave him a half point penalty. Quote from Professor Michael Marmot (University College, London) who was featured in the programme: "If you say to me there are always going to be menial jobs, yes of course, but we can make them better or worse and it seems to me that the demands for efficiency at the cost of an individual's health and well-being - it's got to be balanced" |
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