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Amazon needs to prove its longterm profitability, keep its investors patient, avoid negative publicity and resolve its labor issues. Traditional department stores had shelf lives; the same can be true for e-commerce pioneers. ....
Awkward human workers still need to urinate Amazon has apologised for a tweet denying ‘the peeing in bottles thing’ Tue, Apr 6, 2021, 05:30 An Amazon Prime lorry near a fulfilment centre in Bessemer, Alabama, where workers have voted on whether to unionise. ‘We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms,’ Amazon admitted. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon / AFP
In all the discussion of the millions of jobs that have been lost and will be lost to automation, one point is perhaps not emphasised enough: that in some companies, there already seems to be a notable desire to treat human members of the workforce as robots. How else can Amazon’s long effort to ignore the biological fact of urination be explained? ....
The Irish Times view on Amazon unionisation vote: Bellwether for the tech sector Amazon critics note wages fall well short of those paid to unionised warehouse workers generally about 3 hours ago In Bessemer, Alabama, 6,000 workers at one of Amazon’s vast product fulfilment warehouses are deciding whether to unionise. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty
The future shape of Amazon, and of many technology companies across the US, may well be hanging on a union vote count now unfolding in an Alabama town. In Bessemer, Alabama, 6,000 workers at one of Amazon’s vast warehouses are deciding whether to unionise. The action signals a dramatic point of tension between two disparate working worlds – on the one hand, the resoundingly non-unionised tech sector, in which Amazon is seen as a bellwether, and the more traditionally unionised, manual-labour warehouse and delivery sectors. ....
Man shot, killed during assault in Bessemer (Source: Gray News) By WBRC Staff | April 5, 2021 at 9:50 AM CDT - Updated April 5 at 11:04 AM BESSEMER, Ala. (WBRC) - A 31-year-old man was shot and killed during an assault in Bessemer. The Jefferson County Coroner said Demario Lawrence Kirkland of Bessemer was shot Saturday evening at 6:43 p.m. in the 100 block of 10st Street South. Kirkland died more than an hour after he was shot. The case is being investigated as a homicide. Bessemer Police said it is not known at this time what lead to Kirkland being shot. Detectives are interviewing witnesses to determine what happened to Kirkland. ....