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June 2, 2021
Amazon's "Time off Task" metric refers to time workers spend away from their stations. Staff have said Amazon uses it to monitor their productivity.
June 2, 2021
Amazon's "Time off Task" metric refers to time workers spend away from their stations. Staff have said Amazon uses it to monitor their productivity.
March 11, 2021
BESSEMER, Ala. — Timmy Johnson, a 23-year-old dockworker for Amazon, was skeptical when he first heard about the push to form a union at his warehouse. Scanning boxes and taking them to trucks was exhausting, but $15.55 an hour was more than he had earned as a stacker at Lowe’s, and he didn’t see the point of paying nearly $500 a year in dues. Then he spoke to his father, a former coal miner. “He said it was a good thing for us to have,” Johnson said. “He told me my job would be ...