AMAZON

Begonnen von CubanNecktie, 15:51:27 So. 17.Februar 2013

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Fritz Linow

Foxconn hatte auch mal Netze ausgespannt, damit die Arbeiter beim Sprung in die Tiefe wohlbehalten bleiben.

Kuddel

Ich zitiere hier nochmal aus Beitrag #573, denn er beschreibt vieles plastisch und nachvollziehbar.

ZitatTina erzählt uns von den erniedrigenden Arbeitsbedingungen und weshalb sie nicht daran glaubt, dass die von ver.di geführten Verhandlungen und Streiks daran etwas ändern können.
(...)
Hätte ich vorher gewusst, was auf mich zukommen wird – ich hätte das für keinen Cent der Welt gemacht. Diese neun Wochen waren seelenzermürbend.

An unserem ersten Arbeitstag erhielten wir eine Schulung, nachdem wir bereits fünf Stunden in der Halle standen und mitgeholfen haben. Ich wurde den Packern zugeteilt, musste also die von den Pickern zusammengesuchte Ware verpacken. Für die Schulung wurden wir in einen Raum mit Stühlen geführt. Wir durften uns während der Schulung jedoch nicht setzen, obwohl der Mann, der die Schulung durchgeführt hat, selber auf einem Stuhl saß. Auf Nachfrage einer älteren Frau, ob wir uns nicht setzen dürften, sagte er: ,,Ihr habt einen Arbeitsvertrag für eine stehende Tätigkeit unterschrieben, also nein, hier darf sich niemand setzen."

Das Argument der stehenden Tätigkeit wurde gerne verwendet. In dem Jahr, als ich bei Amazon war, hat der Konzern sich verkalkuliert und etwas mehr Leute angestellt, als tatsächlich gebraucht wurden. Aber anstatt die Leute einfach früher in den Feierabend zu schicken oder einen Tag mehr frei zu geben, hat Amazon uns vor die Wahl gestellt. Entweder wir gehen nach Hause und werden nicht bezahlt, oder wir gehen in einen Raum, und stehen. Das ist kein Witz. Wir haben ja einer stehenden Tätigkeit zugestimmt und sich zu setzen, das wäre gleichbedeutend mit Pause machen, und das wird nicht bezahlt.
(...)
Diese Demütigung und Kontrolle beginnt ja schon zu Dienstbeginn in der Schleuse, wo dir alles abgenommen wird. Vor allem migrantische Mitarbeiter:innen wurden von Kopf bis Fuß gefilzt, teils mehrmals am Tag, da ihnen unterstellt wurde, sie würden klauen. Das war sehr auffällig.
(...)
Amazon ist für mich der Inbegriff von Kapitalismus. Ich hatte das Gefühl, dort an eine Maschine angeschlossen zu werden. Der Kampf um jede Sekunde, in der man kurz was trinken kann oder dem Lärm entkommen kann. So ein Konzern, so ein Arbeitgeber lässt sich nicht reformieren. Die Art und Weise, wie Amazon mit seinen Mitarbeiter:innen umgeht und wie die bezahlt werden, ist ja der Grund, weshalb die so erfolgreich sind. Ich selber würde dort keinen Fuß mehr hineinsetzen. Aber die meisten, die dort arbeiten, können sich das nicht aussuchen. Um zu überleben, nimmst du am Ende eben alles, was du bekommst.
https://betriebskampf.org/2021/04/29/arbeit-bei-amazon-diese-neun-wochen-waren-seelenzermuerbend/

So etwas, wie Kapitalismuskritik und Kritik am Amazonkonzern mag ja richtig sein, doch es ist nicht nur eine theoretische Ablehnung nötig. Dieser Bericht beschreibt so anschaulich und mitfühlbar, wie sehr dieses System den einzelnen Menschen erniedrigt. Wie schlecht und nichtig sich der Mensch darin fühlt.

Nikita

Menschen, während sie nichts tun, stehen zu lassen, rassistische Kontrollen, Rennen um in den Pausenraum zu gelangen, weil er zu weit weg ist und sitzen als Pause zu verrechnen.
Das ist bösartig. Es ist Sklaverei und gezielte Demütigung bei Amazon Leipzig. Das Abrechnen von Sitzen als Pause halte ich für illegal. Anlasslose Kontrollen von migrantischen Mitarbeiter ist illegal und rassistisch. Ich denke, man würde bei Amazon Leipzig noch einiges mehr an vielleicht auch kriminellen Machenschaften von Seiten der Unternehmensführung finden. Wäre nicht überrascht, wenn man versteckte Kameras von Amazon dort findet, um die Mitarbeiter zu überwachen, was auch illegal wäre.

Ein gute Ort für einen Undercover-Journalisten, dort mal die Kamera mit reinzunehmen. Wenn man zwei, drei Tage dort war, kennt man die Schwachstellen und weiß, wie man selbst eine versteckte Kamera eingeschleust bekommt.

ManOfConstantSorrow

In der Nähe von Oldenburg soll eine Amazonniederlassung für 11.000 Beschäftigte errichtet werden. Bisher war die größte Niederlassung in Deutschland in Bad Hersfeld mit 4000 Mitarbeitern.

Zusätzlich soll ein engmaschiges Netz kleiner Lager im ganzen Land aufgebaut werden. Die Amazonisierung des Konsums, der Arbeitswelt und der Gesellschaft geht weiter.

Weiter geht auch eine Basisvernetzung der Amazonbeschäftigten. Es geht um den Aufbau neuer Kampfstrukturen.
Arbeitsscheu und chronisch schlecht gelaunt!

Kuddel

ZitatDie Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft Verdi hat die Beschäftigten beim Versandhändler Amazon in Leipzig erneut zum Streik aufgerufen. Der Aufruf galt für die Zeit vom Beginn der Nachtschicht am Sonntag (21.30 Uhr) bis zum Ende der Spätschicht am Montag (23.15 Uhr). "Amazon wird uns nicht los", hatte die Gewerkschaft den Streikaufruf überschrieben. Wegen der Hygiene-Regeln aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie sollen vor dem Amazon-Lager am Montagmorgen aber nur kleinere Aktionen stattfinden, hieß es.

"Amazon hat in den letzten zwei Monaten beim Weihnachtsgeschäft wieder gigantische Umsatzsteigerungen verzeichnet. Das Vermögen von Amazon-Besitzer Jeff Bezos steigt um 7,5 Millionen Euro pro Stunde und gleichzeitig wird bei den Beschäftigten gespart, wo es geht. Das beginnt beim Urlaubsgeld und endet beim Weihnachtsgeld", erklärte Verdi-Fachbereichsleiter Jörg Lauenroth-Mago.
https://www.t-online.de/region/leipzig/news/id_91451538/verdi-ruft-amazon-beschaeftigte-in-leipzig-zum-streik-auf.html

ManOfConstantSorrow

ZitatAmazon hat weltweit 4,7 Milliarden Dollar an Subventionen erhalten, sagt eine Überwachungsorganisation

Amazon hat in den letzten 10 Jahren weltweit mindestens 4,7 Milliarden Dollar an Steuererleichterungen für Lagerhäuser, Rechenzentren, Büros, Callcenter und Filmproduktionsprojekte erhalten, so ein neuer Bericht einer Watchdog-Gruppe und eines globalen Gewerkschaftsverbands.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmvk8/amazon-has-received-at-least-dollar47-billion-in-subsidies-globally-watchdog-says
Arbeitsscheu und chronisch schlecht gelaunt!

ManOfConstantSorrow



"Am Wochenende haben sich Amazon Kolleg*innen aus mehreren Ländern über Amazon Workers International
in Bad Hersfeld getroffen. Der Kampf um bessere Bedingungen in einem globalen Konzern geht nur durch globale Vernetzung. Die Kolleg*innen lassen sich nicht spalten! "
Arbeitsscheu und chronisch schlecht gelaunt!

Nikita

Es soll der erste Amazon Betriebsrat in den USA sein:

Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize in Landmark Win for Labor

Despite heavy lobbying by the company, workers at the facility voted by a wide margin for a union. It was seen as a rebuke of the company's treatment of its employees.

[spoiler]Workers at Amazon's massive warehouse on Staten Island voted by a wide margin to form a union, according to results released on Friday, in a landmark win for a campaign targeting the country's second-largest employer and one of the biggest victories for organized labor in a generation.

Employees cast 2,654 votes to be represented by Amazon Labor Union and 2,131 against, giving the union a win by more than 10 percentage points, according to the National Labor Relations Board. More than 8,300 workers at the building, the only Amazon fulfillment center in New York City, were eligible to vote.

The win on Staten Island could herald a new era for labor unions in the United States, which saw the portion of workers in unions drop last year to 10.3 percent, the lowest rate in decades, despite widespread labor shortages and pockets of successful labor activity.

No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon, which many union leaders regard as an existential threat to labor standards across the economy because it touches so many industries and frequently dominates them.

The Staten Island outcome came on the heels of what is trending toward a narrow loss by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union at a large Amazon warehouse in Alabama in a campaign. The vote is close enough that the results will not be known for several weeks as contested ballots are litigated.

The surprising strength shown by unions in both locations most likely means that Amazon will face years of labor pressure from independent worker groups, large unions targeting the company and environmental and other progressive activists working with them. As a recent string of union victories at Starbucks has shown, wins at one location can provide encouragement at others.

Amazon hired voraciously over the past two years and now has 1.6 million employees globally. But it has been plagued by high turnover, and the pandemic gave employees a growing sense of power while fueling worries about workplace safety. The Staten Island warehouse, known as JFK8, was the subject of a New York Times investigation last year, which found that it was emblematic of the stresses in Amazon's employment model.

"The pandemic has fundamentally changed the labor landscape," said John Logan, a professor of labor studies at San Francisco State University. "It's just a question of whether unions can take advantage of the opportunity that transformation has opened up."

Amazon did not immediately comment on the outcome. The company can in principle challenge the vote on grounds that the union's conduct was improper.

Standing outside the N.L.R.B. office in Brooklyn where the ballots were tallied, Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee who started the union, popped a bottle of champagne before a crowd of supporters and press. "To the first Amazon union in American history," he cheered.

Derrick Palmer, who packs boxes at the warehouse and co-founded the union, said he expected other facilities to follow Staten Island. "This will be the first union," he said, "but moving forward, that will motivate other workers to get on board with us."

One question facing the labor movement and other progressive groups is the extent to which they will help the Amazon Labor Union, an upstart, independent group, withstand potential challenges to the result and negotiate a first contract, such as by providing resources and legal talent.

"The company will appeal, drag it out — it's going to be an ongoing fight," said Gene Bruskin, a longtime organizer who helped notch one of labor's last victories on this scale, at a Smithfield meat-processing plant in 2008, and has informally advised the Staten Island workers. "The labor movement has to figure out how to support them."

Sean O'Brien, the new president of the 1.3 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said in an interview on Thursday that the union was prepared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars unionizing Amazon and to collaborate with a variety of other unions and progressive groups.

"We've got a lot of partners in labor," Mr. O'Brien said. "We've got community groups. It's going to be a large coalition."

A culture of fear created by intense productivity monitoring that was documented by The Times at JFK8 has been a key motivation for the unionization drive, which started in earnest almost a year ago. The Amazon facility offered a lifeline to laid-off workers during the pandemic but burned through staff and had such poor communication and technology that workers inadvertently were fired or lost benefits.

For some employees, the stress of working at the warehouse during Covid outbreaks was a radicalizing experience to take action. Mr. Smalls, the president of the Amazon Labor Union, said he became alarmed in March 2020 after encountering a co-worker who was clearly ill. Fearing an outbreak, he pleaded with management to close the facility for two weeks. The company fired him after he helped lead a walkout over safety conditions in late March of that year.

Amazon said at the time that it had taken "extreme measures" to keep workers safe, including deep cleaning and social distancing. It said it fired Mr. Smalls for violating social distancing guidelines and attending the walkout even though he had been placed in a quarantine.

After workers at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., overwhelmingly rejected the retail workers union in its first election last spring, Mr. Smalls and Mr. Palmer, his best friend, decided to form a new union, called Amazon Labor Union.

While the organizing in Alabama included high-profile tactics, with progressive supporters like Senator Bernie Sanders visiting the area, the organizers at JFK8 took a somewhat different approach. Their insider status helped them build support, as they wore shirts and masks bearing the union's logo in the building and posted on internal message boards. (The retail workers said they were hamstrung by Covid during their initial election in Alabama and did far more in-person organizing this year.)

For months, they set up shop at the bus stop outside the warehouse, grilling meat at barbecues and at one point even passing out pot. They were active on social media, with TikTok videos and regular tweets about Amazon's campaign tactics.

They also filed numerous unfair labor practice charges with the N.L.R.B. when they believed Amazon infringed on their rights. The labor agency found merit in several of the cases, some of which Amazon settled in a nationwide agreement to allow workers more access to organize on-site.

At times the Amazon Labor Union stumbled. The labor board determined this fall that the fledgling union, which spent months collecting signatures from workers requesting a vote, had not demonstrated sufficient support to warrant an election. But the organizers kept trying, and by late January they had finally gathered enough signatures.

Amazon played up its minimum wage of $15 an hour in advertising and other public relations efforts. The company also waged a full-throated campaign against the union both while it tried to qualify for the election and once the vote was set, texting employees and mandating attendance at anti-union meetings. It spent $4.3 million on anti-union consultants nationwide last year, according to annual disclosures filed on Thursday with the Labor Department.

In February, Mr. Smalls was arrested at the facility after managers said he was trespassing while delivering food to co-workers and called the police. Two current employees were also arrested during the incident, which appeared to galvanize interest in the union.

In the run-up to the vote, the union projected several images onto the front of the facility on Staten Island, including the message, "They Arrested Your Coworkers."

The difference in outcomes in Bessemer and Staten Island may reflect a difference in receptiveness toward unions in the two states — roughly 6 percent of workers in Alabama are union members, versus 22 percent in New York — as well as the difference between a mail-in election and one conducted in person.

But it may also suggest the advantages of organizing through an independent, worker-led union rather than a traditional one. In Alabama, union officials and professional organizers were still barred from the facility under the settlement with the labor board. But at the Staten Island site, a larger portion of the union leadership and organizers were current employees, giving them more direct access to co-workers.

"What we were trying to say all along is that having workers on the inside is the most powerful tool," said Mr. Palmer, who makes $21.50 an hour. "People didn't believe it, but you can't beat workers organizing other workers."

The independence of the Amazon Labor Union also appeared to make Amazon's anti-union talking points less effective. Over the course of hundreds of anti-union meetings with employees, the company suggested that the A.L.U. was an interloper seeking to come between the company and its employees and use their money for its own purposes.

But these critiques were easier for the union to dispel there. "When a worker comes up to me, they look at me then see I have a badge on and say, 'You work here?'" said Angelika Maldonado, an employee who was active in the organizing campaign. "'I'm like yeah, 'I work here.' It makes us relatable from the beginning."

On March 25, workers at JFK8 started lining up outside a tent in the parking lot to vote. And over five voting days, they cast their ballots to form what may become the first union at Amazon's operations in the United States.

Another election, brought also by Amazon Labor Union at a neighboring Staten Island facility, is scheduled for late April.

Jodi Kantor contributed reporting.[/spoiler]
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/technology/amazon-union-staten-island.html

Nikita

The Amazon That Customers Don't See

Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.

By Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise and Grace Ashford

June 15, 2021
[spoiler]
When the coronavirus shut down New York last spring, many residents came to rely on a colossal building they had never heard of: JFK8, Amazon's only fulfillment center in America's largest city.

What happened inside shows how Jeff Bezos created the workplace of the future and pulled off the impossible during the pandemic — but also reveals what's standing in the way of his promise to do better by his employees.

LAST SEPTEMBER, Ann Castillo saw an email from Amazon that made no sense. Her husband had worked for the company for five years, most recently at the supersize warehouse on Staten Island that served as the retailer's critical pipeline to New York City. Now it wanted him back on the night shift.

"We notified your manager and H.R. about your return to work on Oct. 1, 2020," the message said.

Ms. Castillo was incredulous. While working mandatory overtime in the spring, her 42-year-old husband, Alberto, had been among the first wave of employees at the site to test positive for the coronavirus. Ravaged by fevers and infections, he suffered extensive brain damage. On tests of responsiveness, Ms. Castillo said, "his score was almost nothing."

For months, Ms. Castillo, a polite, get-it-done physical therapist, had been alerting the company that her husband, who had been proud to work for the retail giant, was severely ill. The responses were disjointed and confusing. Emails and calls to Amazon's automated systems often dead-ended. The company's benefits were generous, but she had been left panicking as disability payments mysteriously halted. She managed to speak to several human resources workers, one of whom reinstated the payments, but after that, the dialogue mostly reverted to phone trees, auto-replies and voice mail messages on her husband's phone asking if he was coming back.

The return-to-work summons deepened her suspicion that Amazon didn't fully register his situation. "Haven't they kept track of what happened to him?" she said. She wanted to ask the company: "Are your workers disposable? Can you just replace them?"

Mr. Castillo's workplace, the only Amazon fulfillment center in America's largest city, was achieving the impossible during the pandemic. With New York's classic industries suffering mass collapse, the warehouse, called JFK8, absorbed hotel workers, actors, bartenders and dancers, paying nearly $18 an hour. Driven by a new sense of mission to serve customers afraid to shop in person, JFK8 helped Amazon smash shipping records, reach stratospheric sales and book the equivalent of the previous three years' profits rolled into one.

That success, speed and agility were possible because Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos, had pioneered new ways of mass-managing people through technology, relying on a maze of systems that minimized human contact to grow unconstrained.

But the company was faltering in ways outsiders could not see, according to a New York Times examination of JFK8 over the last year.

In contrast to its precise, sophisticated processing of packages, Amazon's model for managing people — heavily reliant on metrics, apps and chatbots — was uneven and strained even before the coronavirus arrived, with employees often having to act as their own caseworkers, interviews and records show. Amid the pandemic, Amazon's system burned through workers, resulted in inadvertent firings and stalled benefits, and impeded communication, casting a shadow over a business success story for the ages.

Amazon took steps unprecedented at the company to offer leniency, but then at times contradicted or ended them. Workers like Mr. Castillo at JFK8 were told to take as much unpaid time off as they needed, then hit with mandatory overtime. When Amazon offered employees flexible personal leaves, the system handling them jammed, issuing a blizzard of job-abandonment notices to workers and sending staff scrambling to save them, according to human resources and warehouse employees.

After absences initially soared and disrupted shipping, Amazon left employees mostly in the dark about the toll of the virus. The company did not tell workers at JFK8 or other warehouses the number of cases, causing them to worry whether notifications about "individuals" testing positive meant two or 22. While Amazon said publicly that it was disclosing confirmed cases to health officials, New York City records show no reported cases until November. The company and city officials dispute what happened.

Amazon continued to track every minute of most warehouse workers' shifts, from how fast they packed merchandise to how long they paused — the kind of monitoring that spurred a failed unionization drive led by frustrated Black employees at an Alabama warehouse this spring. If productivity flagged, Amazon's computers assumed the worker was to blame. Early in the pandemic, the online retailer paused its firing of employees for low output, but that change was not announced clearly at JFK8, so some workers still feared that moving too slowly would cost them their livelihoods.

"It is very important that area managers understand that associates are more than just numbers," an employee wrote on JFK8's internal feedback board last fall, adding: "We are human beings. We are not tools used to make their daily/weekly goals and rates."

The company touted breathtaking job-creation numbers: From July to October 2020 alone, it scooped up 350,000 new workers, more than the population of St. Louis. Many recruits — hired through a computer screening, with little conversation or vetting — lasted just days or weeks.

Even before the pandemic, previously unreported data shows, Amazon lost about 3 percent of its hourly associates each week, meaning the turnover among its work force was roughly 150 percent a year. That rate, almost double that of the retail and logistics industries, has made some executives worry about running out of workers across America.

In documenting the untold story of how the pandemic exposed the power and peril of Amazon's employment system, reporters interviewed nearly 200 current and former employees, from new hires at the JFK8 bus stop to back-office workers overseas to managers on Staten Island and in Seattle. The Times also reviewed company documents, legal filings and government records, as well as posts from warehouse feedback boards that served as a real-time ticker of worker concerns.

This April, Mr. Bezos said he was proud of the company's work culture, the "achievable" productivity goals, the pay and benefits. In interviews, the head of human resources for warehouses and the general manager of JFK8 said that the company prioritized employee welfare, noted that it had expanded its H.R. staff and cited internal surveys showing high worker satisfaction. Some managers from JFK8 and beyond described building deep relationships with their teams.

Amazon acknowledged some issues with inadvertent firings, loss of benefits, job abandonment notices and leaves, but declined to disclose how many people were affected. Kelly Nantel, a spokeswoman, suggested that those problems and some others chronicled in this article were outliers.

Ofori Agboka, the H.R. leader, noted that social distancing and masking had made it harder to engage employees in personal ways during the pandemic. Still, he said, "98 percent of everything's going great — people are having the right experiences," getting the help they need when they want it.

But several former executives who helped design Amazon's systems, and still call themselves admirers of the company, said the high turnover, pressure over productivity and consequences of scaling up have become too critical to ignore. The company has not ambitiously addressed those issues, said Paul Stroup, who until recently led corporate teams devoted to understanding warehouse workers.

"Amazon can solve pretty much any problem it puts its mind behind," he said in an interview. The human resources division, though, had nowhere near the focus, rigor and investment of Amazon's logistical operations, where he had previously worked. "It felt like I was in a different company," he said.

David Niekerk, a former Amazon vice president who built the warehouse human resources operations, said that some problems stemmed from ideas the company had developed when it was much smaller. Mr. Bezos did not want an entrenched work force, calling it "a march to mediocrity," Mr. Niekerk recalled, and saw low-skilled jobs as relatively short-term. As Amazon rapidly grew, Mr. Niekerk said, its policies were harder to implement with fairness and care. "It is just a numbers game in many ways," he said. "The culture gets lost."

Even Mr. Bezos, in his final lap as chief executive of the company he created, is now making startling concessions about the system he invented. In a recent letter to shareholders, he said the union effort showed that "we need a better vision for how we create value for employees — a vision for their success."

"We have always wanted to be Earth's most customer-centric company," he wrote. Now, he added, "we are going to be Earth's best employer and Earth's safest place to work."

Amazon is also on pace to become the nation's largest private employer within a year or two, as it continues expanding. About a million people in the United States, most of them hourly workers, now rely on the company's wages and benefits. Many describe the job as rewarding. Adama Ndoye had supported her family on her JFK8 pay while attending college remotely. "Lights on, food, clothes, everything," she said. Dawn George, a chef, said she was grateful to JFK8 for taking her in after hotel kitchen jobs disappeared last spring. "I'm willing to work my socks off just for an hourly income," she said.

Some admire Amazon's ambition. "It was like being a pitcher on a team that had a game every night," said Dan Cavagnaro, who started at JFK8 when it opened in 2018 and worked with Mr. Castillo.

But Mr. Cavagnaro was mistakenly fired in July while trying to return from leave, and could not reach anyone to help.

"Please note the following," he wrote in his final, unanswered email plea. "I WISH TO REMAIN EMPLOYED WITH AMAZON."
[/spoiler]
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-workers.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

BGS

"Ceterum censeo, Berolinensis esse delendam"

https://forum.chefduzen.de/index.php/topic,21713.1020.html#lastPost
(:DAS SINKENDE SCHIFF DEUTSCHLAND ENDGÜLTIG VERLASSEN!)

Nikita

Zitat von: BGS am 21:20:09 Fr. 01.April 2022
Paywall.

MfG

BGS

Stimmt. Benutze "Bypass Paywalls" als Extension. Damit umgeht mein Browser die Paywall bei NY Times. Habe ich nicht bemerkt. Fullquote des Artikels ist jetzt im Spoiler des anderen Posts.

Zu Bypass Paywalls für den Chrome Browser:

[spoiler] github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
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Kuddel

Wer hätte das gedacht, daß ich mich mal freuen würde, wenn in einem Betrieb eine gewerkschaftliche Organisierung gelungen ist. Seinerzeit hätte ich mindestens die Erwartung gehabt, daß man die gesamte Produktion lahmlegt, am besten den Betrieb besetzt und verbarrikadiert.

Aber laut Warren Buffet herrscht ein Krieg zwischen den Klassen und die Herrschende Klasse ist pausenlos am Gewinnen.

Jeff Bezos hatte vor, Amazon gewerkschaftsfrei zu halten. In Europa hat er schon längst Zugeständnisse machen müssen. Jetzt hat aber erstmals eine gewerkschaftliche Vertretung in einer US Niederlassung, obwohl er Millionenbeträge für professionele Unionbuster ausgegeben hat.



Dies wird als bahnbrechender Sieg gesehen, der den Vormarsch der Kapitalseite erstmalig zurückgeschlagen hat. Endlich sind mal Warren Buffet und Konsorten nicht am Gewinnen. Die Amazonarbeiter:innen reagieren sehr emotional:


Der von Amazon (wegen seiner Organisierungsaktivitäten) entlassene Arbeiter Chris Smalls war Stimme und Gesicht dieses Kampfes.



















Es ist vielleicht nicht nur ein wichtiger Sieg, es ist auch ein Hinweis darauf, daß sich an der Zusammensetzung in Gewerkschaften und bei Arbeitskämpfen etwas grundsätzlich ändert.

Bisher waren die starken US Gewerkschaften von weißen, männlichen Facharbeitern dominiert.

In den letzten Jahren waren einige der großen Arbeitskämpfe in den USA hauptsächlich weiblich und oft sind es Kämpfe prekärer und migrantischer Malocher:innen.

counselor

Im zweiten Teil gibt es ein Interview mit dem Interimspräsidenten der Amazon-Gewerkschaft

https://youtu.be/fBJPaAslOkg
Alles ist in Bewegung. Nichts war schon immer da und nichts wird immer so bleiben!

Nikita

Amazons interne Messaging-Anwendung führt Anti-Gewerkschafts-Zensur ein.

Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like "Union," "Restrooms," "Pay Raise," and "Plantation"
Also: "Grievance," "slave labor," "This is dumb," "living wage," "diversity," "vaccine," and others.

https://theintercept.com/2022/04/04/amazon-union-living-wage-restrooms-chat-app/
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ManOfConstantSorrow

Bilder vom Amazonstreik an 8 Standorten in Frankreich.







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Kuddel

ZitatTod am Arbeitsplatz
»Gemeinsame Aktionen sind möglich«
Polen: Amazon-Betriebsrätin kämpft gegen Kündigung und tödliche Arbeitsbedingungen. Solidarität von deutschen Arbeitern. Ein Gespräch mit Magda Malinowska




Magda Malinowska ist ­Betriebsrätin und Aktivistin der Gewerkschaft OZZ IP im Amazon-Lager in Sady bei Poznan

Ihr Kollege Dariusz Dziamski ist im Amazon-Warenlager in Sady im vergangenen September vermutlich aufgrund der harten Arbeitsbedingungen ums Leben gekommen. Der Konzern hat Sie in diesem Zusammenhang im November entlassen. Wie begründet er die Kündigung?

Offiziell sagt Amazon, dass ich Bilder oder ein Video von Dariuszs Leiche gemacht habe, die vom Lagerhaus zum Bus des Bestatters auf dem Parkplatz transportiert wurde. Das stimmt aber nicht. Ich habe kurz nach dem Tod des Kollegen die Geschäftsleitung gebeten, mich in die Kommission zu setzen, die die Todesumstände aufklären soll. Aber sie waren nicht einverstanden, und ich bin zum Parkplatz gegangen, um unseren Gewerkschaftsanwalt anzurufen. Ich war ziemlich weit weg vom Leichenwagen und habe nicht einmal eine Leiche gesehen. Es könnte sein, dass sie mich entlassen haben, weil ich in einem Interview in der größten polnischen Zeitung Gazeta Wyborcza über den Tod des Kollegen im Zusammenhang mit den Arbeitsbedingungen bei Amazon gesprochen habe. Wir denken, dass sie bereit sind, die Arbeitsbedingungen zu verschlechtern und die Beschäftigten noch mehr auszupressen. Amazon will keine Kontrolle durch die Arbeiter über das, was dort passiert, das können wir natürlich nicht zulassen. Deshalb ist meine Forderung, mich zurück an meinen Arbeitsplatz zu lassen.

Gibt es Aktionen zu Ihrer Unterstützung innerhalb des Lagers von der Gewerkschaft?

Ja, es gibt Proteste innerhalb des Lagerhauses. Denn wenn wir diesen großen Unternehmen solche Kündigungen erlauben, dann werden diese immer üblicher. Andere Chefs sehen das auch, und es wird dann einfacher, Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und gewerkschaftliche Vertrauensleute zu entlassen. Die allgemeine Wahrnehmung muss sein, dass dieses Verhalten ein großer Rechtsbruch ist. Es wird bald den ersten Gerichtstermin zu meiner Kündigungsschutzklage geben. Auch die Amazon-Arbeiter aus Deutschland haben mir viele Solidaritätsbriefe und Bilder geschickt. Es gab eine richtige Solidaritätskampagne in Deutschland für mich.

Die Arbeitsbedingungen in Ihrem Warehouse sind in Deutschland fast unbekannt, wie sieht die Arbeit in Sady aus?

In unserm Lager kommen die Amazon-Artikel von den Herstellern an, wir verpacken sie und schicken sie per Lkw direkt zu den Kunden, im Grunde genommen zu Leuten in Deutschland. Wir haben sehr lange Schichten, bis zu 10,5 Stunden. Wir arbeiten in Tag- und Nachtschichten, und die Arbeit ist sehr eintönig und repetitiv, was sich körperlich auswirkt. Aber wir müssen auch sehr schnell arbeiten, um die vorgegebenen Ziele zu erreichen. Und viele Leute sind bei Zeitarbeitsfirmen oder befristet angestellt. Sie haben es wirklich schwer, einen neuen Vertrag zu bekommen oder einen unbefristeten Vertrag von Amazon zu erhalten. Außerdem wird die Anzahl der Artikel, die wir verpacken, überwacht, wie auch die Frequenz, mit der wir vorgehen. Wenn wir also mal etwas tun müssen, was das Computersystem nicht erkennt, dann sendet es eine Information an unsere Manager, dass wir eine »zusätzliche Pause« machen. In der Hochphase arbeiten bei Amazon in Sady zusammen mit den Zeitarbeitern um die zehntausend Menschen. In einem Monat verdient man bei einer 40-Stunden-Woche ungefähr 550 Euro netto. Früher mussten wir außerdem viele Überstunden machen. Aber die verpflichtende Mehrarbeit haben wir durch unseren gewerkschaftlichen Kampf abgeschafft.

Führen Sie im Moment einen gewerkschaftlichen Kampf im Warehouse?

Gerade bereiten wir eine Petition für eine Lohnerhöhung zusammen mit Büroangestellten und Technikern von Amazon aus Gdansk vor. Es ist die erste Aktion mit ihnen, und das ist eine neue Qualität.

Im März haben die Amazon-Arbeiter in Deutschland gestreikt. Wie könnte ein gemeinsamer Kampf der deutschen und polnischen Kollegen gegen die schlechten Arbeitsbedingungen bei Amazon aussehen?

Natürlich sind gemeinsame Aktionen in den Lagern möglich, zum Beispiel gab es 2015 einen solchen Protest, als die deutschen Arbeiter streikten. Es gab eine Solidaritätsaktion in unserem Haus. Die Kollegen haben damals sehr langsam gearbeitet, um »nein« zu sagen. Denn Amazon hat die Beschäftigten gezwungen, länger zu arbeiten, weil sie Aufträge von Deutschland nach Polen verlegt hatten. Aber sechs Leute wurden nach diesen Protesten direkt entlassen, oder ihre Verträge wurden nicht mehr verlängert. Also bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob die Kollegen bereit sind, so etwas noch einmal zu tun. Aber es gibt trotzdem einige Möglichkeiten, was wir gemeinsam tun können. Alle Lagerhäuser sind miteinander verbunden, und es gibt einige Schwachpunkte, die wir nutzen können, um Druck auf Amazon auszuüben. Wenn wir unsere Kämpfe international koordinieren, hat Amazon viel mehr Angst vor Protesten und reagiert auch anders. Während der Pandemie haben sie zum Beispiel unserer Forderung zur Abschaffung der individuellen Leistungsbewertung nur zugestimmt, weil wir mit deutschen, französischen und sogar amerikanischen Arbeitern zusammengearbeitet haben.
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/424007.tod-am-arbeitsplatz-gemeinsame-aktionen-sind-m%C3%B6glich.html

Kuddel

Zitat»Amazon will die Weltherrschaft«

Jeden Tag 150 Prozent Leistung zeigen. Gas geben und die Schnauze halten - solange du noch keinen Festvertrag hast.
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1162862.arbeitskampf-amazon-will-die-weltherrschaft.html

Nikita

Late Disclosures Concealed The Extent Of Amazon's Anti-Union Campaign
Some of the consultants who lobbied Amazon workers against unionization didn't report their work to the Labor Department until it was too late to matter.

While Amazon workers in Alabama and New York were trying to unionize their warehouses last year, the tech giant hired a large cast of anti-union consultants to undermine the organizing campaigns. Known as "persuaders," these consultants led meetings in the warehouses and pulled workers aside for one-on-one conversations, all with the aim of turning workers against the idea of a union.

The law requires that persuaders file timely disclosure forms with the Labor Department, so that workers understand who their employer has hired and how much they are paying them to lobby against unionization. But it appears the firm that performed the most work for Amazon last year did not report its arrangement with the company until well past the legal time frame for doing so, HuffPost has found. Other consultants seem to have filed late disclosures as well.

The consultants' apparent failure to report their dealings with Amazon within a reasonable amount of time left workers in the dark about the details of their employer's pressure campaign. Some disclosures weren't submitted to the Labor Department until the ballots were literally about to be counted in both union elections at the end of March, defeating the entire point of the transparency law.

"It's useless to people a year after they provided the service," said Connor Spence, an Amazon worker and vice president of membership for the Amazon Labor Union.

Spence was researching Labor Department filings as his union campaign was underway at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, New York. He believed it was important to uncover the consultants' arrangements with Amazon so workers could make an informed decision about their vote. But he had little faith that the filings in the Labor Department's online database accurately reflected the scope of the company's consulting army.

Workers at the JFK8 warehouse ultimately voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of joining the Amazon Labor Union, a stunning upset that established the first Amazon union in the U.S. The results are still not clear in a separate union election at Amazon's BHM1 warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Workers there have voted 993 to 875 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, but more than 400 challenged ballots could still change the outcome.

Both employers and consultants must disclose details of their relationships to the Labor Department, just as unions must file in-depth annual reports laying out their finances. The employers' reports are due at the end of the first quarter the year after the consulting work was performed. But the consultants must inform the government about their dealings within 30 days of an agreement being made with the employer.

"It's useless to people a year after they provided the service."

- Connor Spence, vice president of membership for the Amazon Labor Union
It can be helpful for union organizers and supporters to be able to show their co-workers how much their employer is spending on anti-union consulting as opposed to, say, giving them modest raises.

As HuffPost first reported, Amazon's disclosure filings show it spent roughly $4.3 million on anti-union consultants last year, with a typical rate of $3,200 a day for each consultant, plus expenses. More than $2.9 million of that money went to the Michigan-based Rayla Group, whose president is listed as Penne Familusi-Jackson.

Familusi-Jackson signed an agreement with Amazon on Oct. 12, 2021, which would have made her disclosure filing due in mid-November at the latest. But Familusi-Jackson's disclosure form appears to have been submitted on March 31, the day ballots in both elections were being counted. It listed 16 persuaders on the Amazon campaign.

In her contract with Amazon, Familusi-Jackson agreed to file disclosures to the Labor Department "within the prescribed timeframes."

When reached by phone and asked about the timing of her disclosures, Familusi-Jackson said she would get back to HuffPost. She didn't respond to follow-up texts.

Another consultant, Katie Lev, signed an agreement on Oct. 28 for her firm, Lev Labor, to help Amazon on Staten Island, according to Amazon's annual filing. The contract noted seven other individuals who would work for the firm there. HuffPost could not find a filing submitted by Lev detailing her arrangement with Amazon. Like Familusi-Jackson, Lev's agreement stipulated timely reports submitted to the Labor Department.

Consultants only have to report their activities if they speak directly with workers, as opposed to simply coaching managers on what to say. It's not clear whether the work by Lev's firm required disclosure, although Amazon chose to report it. Lev did not respond to emails or phone calls asking about her Amazon work and whether she disclosed the arrangement to the Labor Department.

In a recent disclosure for her union-related work on behalf of the custom map company Mapbox, Lev claimed she was "hired to educate rather than persuade": "All voters were encouraged to vote the way that was best for them and not to feel pressured."

Lev's firm received at least $371,000 for its Amazon work last year.

Consultant Edward Echanique reached an agreement with Amazon on Nov. 8 to persuade workers at the Staten Island warehouse, according to filings. Echanique's disclosure for that work is dated Jan. 3, 2022, weeks after the end of the 30-day window. Echanique didn't respond to voicemail messages or texts asking if he had disclosed his work on time.

Amazon said in its filing that it made no payments to Echanique during 2021, so details of any payments made to him this year probably won't be public until 2023.

A disclosure form for consultant Bradley Moss' Amazon work appears to have been submitted on March 30, 2022 ― the very last day of voting at the JFK8 warehouse. Reached by phone, Moss said the form would have been submitted by the companies of David Burke, a union avoidance consultant who Moss worked for. (The union alleges that in the course of his work, Moss referred to the union's leaders, Chris Smalls and Derrick Palmer, who are Black, as "thugs.")

According to Amazon's filings, the company paid Burke through two entities: a firm called Labor Information Services, of which Burke is president, and the Burke Group, of which he's also president. Burke first disclosed his Amazon work in a filing last March, and workers were well aware of his presence in the campaigns. His groups received at least $691,000 for their Amazon work in 2021.

A woman who answered the phone for Labor Information Services acknowledged that some of the disclosure forms it was responsible for had been late, including Moss'. She attributed it to a mix-up. She noted that an annual filing that detailed the firm's work for Amazon had been submitted in early March.

The Office of Labor-Management Standards, a branch of the Labor Department, enforces disclosure requirements. A spokesperson for the office said in an email that it could not comment on specific cases or potential violations, but noted that enforcing the disclosure requirements "is our No. 1 priority."

"We are aware that some employers and consultants have filed deficient reports, and others have not yet filed reports covering reportable agreements and expenditures," the spokesperson said.

The vast majority of filings handled by the office involve unions and their finances. But the office's director, Jeffrey Freund, has said he's trying to improve compliance on the management side. He said the evidence suggests many employers and consultants are not disclosing what the law requires. He has even started promoting a tip line.

The Labor Department generally does not pursue criminal cases against employers or persuaders for not filing their forms when they're due. If officials believe someone has failed to follow the law, they may open an investigation and pressure the parties involved to rectify something that's late or incomplete. But under the law, criminal prosecutions can only arise when the violations are "willful," which can be difficult to prove.

The lack of serious penalties is one reason reports are filed late or probably never filed at all.

Amazon declined to comment on its consultants' fillings. The company submitted its own disclosure report on time, listing the payments to its consultants for 2021 in its report last month. But by waiting until the last moment for an employer to do so ― that is, March 31 ― Amazon was able to keep its anti-union spending out of the public eye until labor board officials were counting ballots in both union elections.

"It appears the firm that performed the most work for Amazon last year did not report its arrangement with the company until well past the legal time frame for doing so."

On Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union had been asking to hold its election at a later date, according to Seth Goldstein, a lawyer who's been advising the young union pro bono. Goldstein said Amazon had pushed for an earlier election and ultimately succeeded, with the labor board setting March 30 as the date for voting to end.

Spence knew he wouldn't see the full sum of Amazon's anti-union spending until after the fact.

"It was very convenient" for Amazon, he said. "Literally the next day they had to disclose how much they paid the union-busters."

Spence and others have argued for tighter reporting requirements and stiffer penalties for companies and consultants who fail to disclose their dealings.

Terri Gerstein, a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute think tank, recently argued in The American Prospect that employers like Amazon should have to reveal their persuaders sooner. She noted the murkiness surrounding the Rayla Group: The firm's address appears to be a post office box at a UPS Store in Troy, Michigan. "​​When well-paid proxies are deployed to convince people not to unionize, those workers have a right to know the specifics," Gerstein wrote.

The victory of the Amazon Labor Union at JFK8 will probably force Amazon and other employers to reevaluate their playbook when it comes to anti-union campaigns. But for now, Amazon still seems reliant on persuaders to make their case against unionization in the warehouses. The Amazon Labor Union says several consultants have turned up at a smaller Staten Island facility, known as LDJ5, where a union vote is expected to be held later this month.

Spence said the union was successful at JFK8 in part because workers exposed the consultants and their work, relying mostly on the consultants' past filings related to other employers. It wasn't always easy. Spence said some consultants concealed the names on their visitor badges and refused to identify themselves.

He said it would be much better if workers could see their employer's contracts with consultants in real time, as opposed to having to wait months, or even over a year, to see what their agreement was.

"We still won," Spence said. "But it would have been very helpful to show all that [information] to employees."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-anti-union-consultants_n_62606f2ce4b041ee26501ca2?78l

Kuddel

Es kamen Amazonbeschäftigte aus Achim zur 1.Maidemo in Bremen.





Und heute wird wieder an 7 Standorten gestreikt:

ZitatSieben Standorte betroffen
Verdi ruft zu Streiks bei Amazon auf

Die Gewerkschaft Verdi ruft zu Streiks an mehreren Versandzentren des US-Versandhändlers Amazon auf. Auch bei Sozialdiensten und Kitas sind für die kommenden Tage Streiks geplant.

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/amazon-streik-verdi-100.html



Kuddel

Bei Amazon in Deutschland ist auch wieder ein wenig Bewegung reingekommen.

ver.di Gewerkschaftsliste gewinnt die Betriebsratswahl bei Amazon BRE4 in Achim bei Bremen.


Auch im Amazon Fulfillmentcenter HAM2 in Winsen bei Hamburg hat die ver.di nahe Liste die meisten Stimmen bekommen. Zusammen mit anderen gewerkschaftsnahen und pro-worker Listen haben sie die absolute Mehrheit gegenüber den Managern.

Kuddel

Inside Amazon Labor Union

engl. mit dt. UT | 5 min | 2022 |

"Man muss den Arbeiter*innen zeigen wie stark eine Gewerkschaft ist." (aus dem Video)

Am 1. April 2022 wurde in Staten Island/New York die erste Amazon Gewerkschaft gegründet - gegen den erbitterten Widerstand des Managements, das Millionen Dollars für Union Busting ausgegeben hatte.

Die Genoss*innen von More Perfect Union haben den Gewerkschaftskampf im Amazon Warenlager Staten Island (JFK8) vom ersten Tag an verfolgt.
Ihr Filmmaterial aus den ersten Tagen der Amazon-Gewerkschaftskampagne zeigt, wie die Arbeiter*innen sich organisiert haben: Die Akltivist*innen der Amazon Labor Union versorgten die Arbeiter*innen mit Essen, halfen ihnen Rechnungen zu bezahlen und traten in gewerkschaftsfeindlichen Versammlungen des Managements auf.

Hier ein lesenswertes Interview mit der Packerin Justine Medina (ak) https://www.akweb.de/bewegung/sieg-gegen-amazon-arbeiterin-justin-medina-aus-staten-island-ueber-erfolgreichen-kampf-fuer-gewerkschaftsgruendung/

Über diesen und andere Kämpfe bei Amazon geht es bei der Veranstaltung "Amazon im Aufruhr", am 16. Juni 2022 um 19h im K-Fetisch, Wildenbruchstraße 86, Berlin.
Ein Genosse von Wildcat wird über die weltweiten Kämpfe der Amazon Arbeiter*innen berichten. Kommt vorbei!

https://de.labournet.tv/inside-amazon-labor-union

Kuddel

"Wir sind in der Rechtssache Malinowska gegen Amazon vor Gericht. Die entlassene Aktivistin hat sich nicht auf einen Vergleich eingelassen und fordert ihre Wiedereinstellung. Sie wird von Piotr Krzyżaniak, einem Gewerkschaftsanwalt der OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (IP), vertreten. Die Medien und die Unterstützer von Magda sind vor Ort."









Kuddel

Die mutigen Kolleg:innen der Amazon delivery station DNM1 Wunstorf haben für die Betriebsratswahl in der Nachtschicht mobilisiert. Sie engagieren sich für ihren Kollegen Abdul - ein ver.di Kandidat, dem die Abschiebung droht.


Kuddel

ZitatMehr als eine Front bei Amazon

Bei Amazon in Wunstorf soll bald ein Betriebsrat gewählt werden. Gegen die schlechten Bedingungen bei den Subunternehmern hilft der aber auch nicht.
https://taz.de/Arbeitnehmerrechte-im-Onlinehandel/!5859735/

Nikita

Amazon Is Intimidating and Harassing Organizing Workers in Montreal

BY JEREMY APPEL
Amazon is ramping up its anti-union tactics in Canada. But union organizers say Amazon's American-style union busting won't work in Quebec's pro-labor environment.

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/amazon-workers-union-drive-intimidation-anti-labor-law-montreal-canada/

Kuddel

Besonders erwähnenswert ist eine grenzüberschreitende, teilweise weltweite, Organisierung von Protesten bei Amazon und auch bei den "Riders", den Motorrad- und Fahrradkurieren.

Gewerkschaften haben sich bisher unfähig/unwillig gezeigt, so etwas auf die Beine zu stellen. Dabei ist das die einzige Möglichkeit für einen wirkungsvollen Kampf in Zeiten der Globalisierung. Diese Vernetzung kommt von der Basis. Sie sollte Schule machen.

Kuddel

Techkonzerne wie Uber und Amazon machen/kaufen Politik.

ZitatLobbyisten überall
Frankreich: Neben Uber-Interessenvertreter soll auch einer von Amazon am Wahlkampf von Macron beteiligt gewesen sein
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/430364.korruption-lobbyisten-%C3%BCberall.html

ManOfConstantSorrow

ZitatAmazon wagt drittgrößten Zukauf seiner Geschichte: Erneuter Vorstoß in einen Multimilliarden-Markt

Der Online-Konzern übernimmt One Medical und gibt dafür Milliarden aus. Mit dem Schritt erweitert Amazon sein Geschäft im Gesundheitswesen.


Der US-Onlinehändler Amazon übernimmt den US-Konzern One Medical aus San Francisco für 3,9 Milliarden Dollar. Das gab der Konzern aus Seattle am Donnerstag bekannt. One Medical betreibt in den USA insgesamt 182 Hausarzt-Filialen.

Die Nutzer müssen eine Mitgliedsgebühr zahlen und können dafür rund um die Uhr virtuelle oder persönliche Arztbehandlungen in den Filialen über das Portal buchen. Dabei arbeitet One Medical mit mehr als 8000 Unternehmen zusammen, deren Mitarbeiter das Unternehmensnetz nutzen.

Für Amazon ist es ein weiterer Vorstoß in das Gesundheitsgeschäft. Der Konzern ist bereits im Vertrieb mit Medikamenten als Onlineapotheke aktiv. Ein anderer Plan, zusammen mit JP Morgan und Warren Buffetts Holding Berkshire Hathaway ein eigenes Gesundheitssystem aufzubauen, war hingegen gescheitert. (...)
https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/thespark/us-konzern-amazon-wagt-drittgroessten-zukauf-seiner-geschichte-erneuter-vorstoss-in-einen-multimilliarden-markt/28540342.html
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