Is Amazon so hell-bent on meeting quotas that its practices are literally maiming some workers? On the biggest day of the year for online sales, Will Evans from Reveal’s Center for Investigative Reporting joins Stephanie Ruhle to dig into his report that Amazon’s intense rules for productivity are harming its employees. Aired on 12/02/19.
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I do not order from these abusers.
Virginia B. Britton Soon as I get done with watching this video. I’m getting rid of amazon prime.
I love books, but I cannot give Jeff Bezos Amazon a single cent so I have to go without(unless the library gets a book title I want to read).
Workers Compensation sucks BTW. A fight with any employer to prove your injured no matter what a doctor states leaves a person so humiliated that it’s no wonder the US suicide rate keeps increasing. A human equals nothing compared to shareholder profit.
This is very normal,how else do you become a billionaire ,but exploiting the people around you ? It’s elementary my dear Watson.
I stopped using Amazon, a long time ago. Too many private sellers leads to scammers
It’s just like Alibaba. A front for peddling chinese knockoffs anyways
I didn’t work for Amazon but I’ve worked in a parcel fulfillment center and it was run like a sweat shop. The quota counts are ridiculous, the pace is extreme and the work is monotonous. I’m not surprised by those figures.
What about a GAS LEAK filling the warehouse? Orders shipped no matter what.
How dare you get in the way of my rich family member profit margins. They need a luxury car, luxury house and luxury lunch that costs as much as I spend on food in a week. How dare you try to bring them back to earth.
More Botox, more cruises, more, more, more. Oh the Holidays, everyone has to suffer their drunken Boomer relatives.
I shopped online today, but not with amazon. Even one life due to negligence is not worth it.
The workers at Amazon need to be unionized!
Bernie 2020. He’s all for strong unions and holding companies like Amazon accountable. This will not get fixed under a Republican president ever.
@Rockstarr Seven What’s your point?
@Zachary Fluke the US is not going to unionize no matter who is President, Wall Street will not allow it and has spent decades against it. Humans without jobs is what’s happening now in our country. And the same Corporations, Billionaires who fought to keep union membership down also have stripped down a social safety net through legislation.
Look around man. I am heartbroken by it bit face the truth of it after Occupy movement failed. The media ridiculed us, millions of us. It has only become worse in the past 10 years as the middle class shrinks before our eyes. Next recession is going to be late to wake these obedient sheep.
Christina Cope as Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it is done”. Just because something is, doesn’t mean it must be.
@Asha Arie
You’re a traitor kunt
is anyone else reminded of
working conditions in the 19th century?
actually?
working conditions since the emergence of
profit capitalism…
#profitistheproblem
The dawn of industrialization was the birth of capitalism and progressive slavery. The middle class has been exploited by politiicans on the right and the left who are bought by corporations. Unions also have their issues. We need better wages, health plans, treatment etc it is not right that someone who does not work should be paid the same and that is the down side.
@True Patriot and your solution for those who cannot work is what? Euthanizing them quickly or killing them slowly.
Welcome to the modern slavery.
These folks voluntarily took the job and get paid for it, sooo… not slavery.
@mastermason10
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slavery
Definition of slavery
1a: the practice of slaveholding
b: the state of a person who is a chattel of another
2: submission to a dominating influence
3: DRUDGERY, TOIL
Feel free to shut up now.
What a day for an effective strike. Any more reason they need to unionize?
Also, choose no rush shipping. Get that dollar.
Easy solutions: NEVER use Amazon!
Amazon is not the only company hurting their workers.
Lucy 1950 I agree but it’s at the rate they are and that thanks to the republicans/trump extreme tax cuts Amazon and Bezo’s pay no taxes at all!! Also, 1 does not negate the other.
And that’s why I don’t. I also don’t shop WalMart because of their treatment of employees. But I know that I am not making a difference except in not compromising my ideals with the company(s) that are evil in my opinion. It’s getting harder for me to shop but so be it, maybe I don’t need their junk.
Amazon’s response?
Make everyone wear a reflective vest
I feel for pickers and packers.
This is an excellent example of why we need “Unions” & to organize people. Capitalism doesn’t care about it’s worker bee’s. It will extoll,, never ending exceeding & wanton exploitation of its drone worker bee’s to the point of exhaustion & death. Those that are on minimum wage & the lowest economic rung are the ones who need to organize & unionize the most.
I have never bought Amazon products, and I will never do.
Welcome to the 21st century textile mill. Lol
Capitalism at it’s greediest. “Make us money even if you die doing it!”
Still better than communism
I havent shopped with Amazon in 5 yrs. I have deleted my account. They are the epitome of Capitalist Evil.
Still better than communism
Much of this because the customer just “has to have” their stuff the next day!
Whatever happened to patience, or planning?
Have you driven in the United States lately, no patience to even stop at intersections with stop signs or traffic lights.
Amazon sucks! Jeff Bezos, I will never buy from Amazon! I will do without if I need, but this model of business is corrossive to our communities!