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Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off

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But what could we be doing to stop this from happening? Could it be that we need more granular binning of people between part time to full time work, with increasingly increased full time rights?

Well, the most obvious is to have some sort of universal health care coverage that can be separated from your place of employment.

No, the most obvious step is to stop giving them your business.

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I'm curious how they attract people to work for them, if it's common knowledge they are terrible to work for? Is that there just aren't enough other, better warehouse jobs? The few folks I have known who worked in warehouses (non-AMZN ones) generally didn't like the work, but I didn't hear outright horror stories like these.

Because tons of people do difficult and dirty jobs, that is how the world works around you. I'm on 100% side of the workers but people having cozy office jobs are simply disconnected with the reality.

Right, but the reporting at least suggests Amazon is worse than comparable back-breaking warehouse work - is it just that shitty treatment by management at other warehouses isn't in the news, or are they actually different?
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