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Amazon Contractors Are Revolting, Here Are Their Demands<\/strong><\/a> — from interestingengineering.com by Loukia Papadopoulos
\nTwo major delivery partners announced they chose to shut down rather than keep sating Amazon’s draconian demands.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The firms essentially offered Amazon an ultimatum to either agree to a set of conditions that they said would improve driver safety, or they would shut down \u2014 well, Amazon is their only client. Amazon refused, and the two companies actually followed through with their ultimatum.<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nOur son, who is college age, worked at an Amazon distribution center last summer. He is typically a healthy person. But his back and knees did not do well over the summer. After just a few weeks of having to meet an aggressive (and constant) quota of items being shipped, pains and issues started appearing. I don’t know how some of their employees keep up the pace that they are required to maintain…hour after hour after hour after hour…day after day, month after month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Amazon is destroying millions of unsold goods, from smart TVs to laptops<\/strong><\/a> — from fastcompany.com by Lucy Wishart
\nAn Amazon warehouse expos\u00e9 in the UK underscores a larger problem with how goods are treated as disposable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

A recent\u00a0undercover investigation<\/a>\u00a0in an Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline, Scotland, reported the disposal of more than 130,000 \u201cnew or lightly used\u201d objects in a single week in just that one location. Public outrage was\u00a0clear<\/a>. Questions were asked about how Amazon could be so wasteful and why weren\u2019t the usable objects sent to those in need?<\/p>\n

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Exclusive: Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, an ITV News investigation has uncovered.<\/p>\n

Many of the products – including smart TVs and laptops – are often new and unused. https:\/\/t.co\/OJjexB0YQd<\/a>#AmazonWaste<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/UR7XrLWvIM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ITV News (@itvnews) June 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n