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The Teamsters Union has begun a campaign to organize workers at nine Amazon facilities in Canada

Monitoring of amazon workers at fulfillment centers. their rate at which they accomplish theie tasks, and time off task. when they are doing something that physically the company in its automated systems doesn't believe to be productive movement. it seals sort of kofka-esque. >> the story of a employee who was regularly praised by her bosses. she was a good performer. 2019, she was fired. why? she had one bad day. a nightmare day one thing snowballs into another thing. she tried to stay on task and other things got into the way. and she had to pause for a minute. she told her job totals were t...

Been trying to tell the company that her husband was very, very severely ill. >> one of the things that i found nightmarish in your reporting was the moment by moment monitoring of amazon workers at fulfillment centers. their rate at which they accomplish their task and their time off task when they're doing something that physically the company in its automated system does not believe to be productive movement. it feels sort of like kafka. >> we tell the story of a worker named diane who was a very good performer, she was regularly praised by our bosses and yet at the end of 2019, she was fir...

>> the ultimate question of the investigation is to how can amazon be so precise and sophisticated with packages and yet treat people so differently. for example, at amazon you can get a job abandonment notice for applying for a leave. for a very routine leave. many people have gotten them. and alarm workers. making them think something is wrong. like the notification of a few minutes ago. when her husband was so ill. she got a message saying to that to her husband, saying when are yo coming back to work? even though for months she has been trying to tell the company her husband was severely i...

Amazon reported over 24,400 injuries last year. An expert said Amazon's high productivity goals are likely to blame.