diff --git a/rap_sheets/amazon.md b/rap_sheets/amazon.md index 63295aa..a1932df 100644 --- a/rap_sheets/amazon.md +++ b/rap_sheets/amazon.md @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Amazon is the root of abuses of privacy, freedom, human rights, civil liberties, 1. Amazon was [caught][personalizedpricing] using *personalized pricing* (charged different prices to different people for DVDs) 1. Amazon is notorious for **fighting unions** and **mistreating employees** despite its wealth and growth. 1. Amazon runs an extreme sweatshop that diminishes quality of life. The consequential mental health crisis is [evidenced][callsTo911] by 189 calls from Amazon warehouses to 911 in five years. + 1. Amazon has [chickenized reverse-centaurs][chickenization]. + 1. Amazon uses automation that [increases injury rates][roboinjury]. + 1. Amazon [enabled covid19-infected workers][covid] to work, which caused several outbreaks in warehouses, then Amazon retaliated against whistle blowers. + 1. Amazon coerced a city to [alter traffic light timing][trafficManipulation] so union organizers couldn't use a red traffic light to reach workers. + 1. Amazon was [fined][tiptheft] $61.7 million for keeping drivers' tips. 1. Amazon drug tests its employees, thus intruding on their privacy outside the workplace and also harming their healthcare. 1. [oppressive and callous attitude][oppression] toward staff. 1. [55-hour work weeks][work55hrs] @@ -131,6 +136,21 @@ See also Richard Stallman's [Amazon RAP sheet][RMS], which we will one day merge [callsTo911]: [callsTo911-cache]: +[chickenization]: https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#weird-flex +[chickenization-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210319201637/https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#weird-flex + +[tiptheft]: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/amazon-ftc-pay-flex-drivers-stolen-tips.html +[tiptheft-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210315082128/slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/amazon-ftc-pay-flex-drivers-stolen-tips.html + +[roboinjury]: https://www.ft.com/content/087fce16-3924-4348-8390-235b435c53b2 +[roboinjury-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210309144309/www.ft.com/content/087fce16-3924-4348-8390-235b435c53b2 + +[covid]: https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/03/socially-useless-parasite/#christian-smalls +[covid-cache]:https://web.archive.org/web/20210308142716/https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/03/socially-useless-parasite + +[trafficManipulation]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-warehouse-union-traffic-light-change-bessemer +[trafficManipulation-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210312181909/www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-warehouse-union-traffic-light-change-bessemer + [oppression]: [oppression-cache]: