{"id":27561,"date":"2013-02-12T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T12:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=27561"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:21:00","slug":"workers-protest-at-amazon-depots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/workers-protest-at-amazon-depots\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Protest At Amazon Depots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27562\" alt=\"Amazon prepares for Christmas\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570.jpg 570w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570-75x31.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570-150x63.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570-383x160.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The GMB trade union have organised\u00a0demonstrations across nine Amazon\u00a0depots in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u00a0\u2018ASBO for Amazon\u2019 was launched as a response to what workers call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A culture of bullying and endemic harassment through the \u2018dataveillance\u2019 system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon terminals direct employees from task to task, with no protocols agreed such as the work speed or how frequently workers should take a break.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign also focuses on staff wages, workers receive just\u00a0\u00a36.20 an hour \u2014 one penny above the UK minimum wage.\u00a0\u00a0The companies tax arrangements and its refusal to allow union representation is also under\u00a0scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>GMB\u2019s national organiser, Paul Clarke, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur members at the company say the name Amazon has become a dirty word among friends and family. While everyone wants goods as cheap as possible, it\u2019s now beginning to dawn on people the consequences of buying from tax-dodging companies who treat their staff so badly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere [Amazon] differs from other retailers is its refusal to pay proper taxes or to treat its workers properly. Profitable companies like Amazon dodging fair taxes while failing to pay their staff a living wage and treat them properly deserve a corporate ASBO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gives Amazon an unfair competitive advantage and is part of the reason why so many established high street names are going to the wall. GMB plan to strip away the high tech image and expose the exploitation involved in their business model.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27562\" alt=\"Amazon prepares for Christmas\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570.jpg 570w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570-75x31.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570-150x63.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/r-AMAZON-large570-383x160.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The GMB trade union have organised\u00c2\u00a0demonstrations across nine Amazon\u00c2\u00a0depots in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcASBO for Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was launched as a response to what workers call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A culture of bullying and endemic harassment through the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdataveillance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon terminals direct employees from task to task, with no protocols agreed such as the work speed or how frequently workers should take a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}