How Amazon drove Alabama warehouse workers to unionize
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
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By Matt Day and Spencer Soper Bloomberg News and Tribune Media Services
Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health insurance. In recent weeks, America’s second-largest employer has rolled out videos featuring happy package handlers wearing masks, a pandemic-era twist on its annual holiday season hiring spree.
Amazon’s object is to persuade potential recruits that there’s no better place to work.
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Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health insurance. In recent weeks, America’s second-largest employer has rolled out videos featuring happy package handlers wearing masks, a pandemic-era twist on its annual holiday season hiring spree.
Amazon’s object is to persuade potential recruits that there’s no better place to work.
The reality is less rosy. Many Amazon warehouse employees struggle to pay the bills, and more than 4,000 employees are on food stamps in nine states studied by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Only Walmart, McDonald’s and two dollar-store chains have more workers requiring such assistance, according to the report, which said 70% of recipients work full-time. As Amazon opens U.S. warehouses at the rate of about one a day, it’s transforming the logistics industry fro
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The Amazon story in Arkansas continues, with parts untold by local boosters, as usual
MORE JOBS: Some will be coming to North Little Rock. Image from Amazon’s website
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The D-G was favored with an advance look at the news release (gee, nobody called us or Arkansas Business, which also had reported on this earlier), perhaps because I’ve been something of a damp blanket on the cheerleaders for this and the previous Amazon facilities opened in Little Rock. Additional news today is that the state will provide $2 million for highway improvements to connect the site with U.S. 70 (chump change in the corporate welfare game but, as a retailer, Amazon doesn’t qualify for most of what Arkansas offers). Amazon also says about 500 jobs will be created by the facility, which will handle the shipment of larger items sold through the Amazon website.
Amazon hasturned a middle-class warehouse career into a McJob
Despite a starting wage of $15 an hour, the company is dragging down pay in the logistics industry and bracing for a fight with unions.
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Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health insurance. In recent weeks, America’s second-largest employer has rolled out videos featuring happy package handlers wearing masks, a pandemic-era twist on its annual holiday season hiring spree. Amazon’s object is to persuade potential recruits that there’s no better place to work.