Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Aug 27, 2024
#Labor board confirms #AmazonDrivers are employees, in finding hailed by #union
“We are #Amazon workers”: Delivery drivers celebrate labor board finding.
After a yearlong investigation, the #NLRB has issued what Amazon delivery drivers' union has claimed was "a groundbreaking decision that sets the stage for Amazon delivery drivers across the country to organize with the #Teamsters."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/labor-board-confirms-amazon-drivers-are-employees-in-finding-hailed-by-union/
Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees, in finding hailed by union

“We are Amazon workers”: Delivery drivers celebrate labor board finding.

Ars Technica
Teknikal_DomainFeb 3, 2024

Out of context quotes at the #AmazonDrivers dispatch desk today:

  • pushes hot chocolate button on machine
  • "Let's see, are you going to be made out of hot dog water today?"
Teknikal_DomainJan 7, 2024
  • Dirty reverse camera
  • Collision Warning Camera inoperative
  • NO parking brake
  • Unresponsive service brakes (pedal needs to go all the way down to start working
  • Several bad door seals

  • Not allowed to leave the engine running between stops in literally freezing (29F / -2C) temperatures while it's snowing

  • Refuses to give winter uniforms or jackets until you've been there long enough

  • Don't get stuck or we'll write you up

  • If you get stuck better not tear up the customer's yard or we'll have to write you up

What a day.

#Amazon #AmazonDrivers #job #FuckAmazon

MotherboardDec 6, 2023
Amazon "aims to paint myself and the City of Perris as an example of a manipulated municipality for future development," Mayor Michael Vargas said.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjbm9/amazon-brags-it-cultivated-california-mayor-with-donations-in-leaked-policy-document?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#amazon #California #SanBernardino #amazondrivers #Union #leakeddocuments
Amazon Brags It ‘Cultivated’ California Mayor With Donations in Leaked Policy Document

Amazon "aims to paint myself and the City of Perris as an example of a manipulated municipality for future development," Mayor Michael Vargas said.

chris actualOct 31, 2023

If you have the misfortune of working near an #amazon warehouse, is the driveway littered with drivers' piss bottles like ours is? They only moved in a couple years ago, and we never had a piss bottle issue, and now there is a piss bottle epidemic greeting me every morning. Also #amazondrivers - what the actual fuck, you animals? I'd love to kick your dicks in

#rant #filthy #scumbags

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jul 19, 2023
#Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van #Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online
Numerous posts on Reddit show surveillance videos of #AmazonDrivers’ actions on the road, but such recordings haven’t been posted so frequently before. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b3gj/amazon-told-drivers-not-to-worry-about-in-van-surveillance-cameras-now-footage-is-leaking-online
Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online

Numerous posts on Reddit show surveillance videos of drivers’ actions on the road, but such recordings haven’t been posted so frequently before.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jul 14, 2023
Extreme #heat prompts first-ever #Amazon #deliverydriver strike
Keeping drivers safe could require fundamentally changing the company's business model. In Southern #California, 84 #AmazonDrivers joined the International Brotherhood of #Teamsters and negotiated the first #union contract among any #Amazon workers in the country. And since June 24, these workers have been on an indefinite #strike. https://grist.org/labor/extreme-heat-california-amazon-delivery-driver-strike/ #climate
Extreme heat prompts first-ever Amazon delivery driver strike

Keeping all Amazon drivers cool could require fundamentally changing the company's business model.

Grist
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jun 16, 2023
#AmazonDrivers Are Actually Just "Drivers Delivering for Amazon," #Amazon Says
Striking drivers, unionized with the International Brotherhood of #Teamsters, Amazon's argument is that actual #deliverydrivers are employed by 3rd-party #delivery companies, known as delivery service partners (DSP) , though they work in Amazon facilities to deliver Amazon packages, and how they work, when, and how much they get paid is largely determined by terms Amazon sets with the DSP.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaa4m/amazon-drivers-are-actually-just-drivers-delivering-for-amazon-amazon-says
Amazon Drivers Are Actually Just "Drivers Delivering for Amazon," Amazon Says

This is a very important difference.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Apr 24, 2023
A Group of #AmazonDrivers Just Joined One of the Biggest #Unions in the US
Drivers in California have joined the International #BrotherhoodOfTeamsters, in one of the first driver-specific unionization efforts at #Amazon.
The group of 84 delivery drivers in Palmdale, California work at Amazon’s DAX8 delivery station. They’re not #Amazon #employees, but rather employees of an #AmazonDeliveryServicePartner (#DSP) called Battle-Tested Strategies.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5ygaw/a-group-of-amazon-drivers-just-joined-one-of-the-biggest-unions-in-the-us
#Teamsters #Local396
A Group of Amazon Drivers Just Joined One of the Biggest Unions in the US

Drivers in California have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, in one of the first driver-specific unionization efforts in the company.

SheDevilMar 18, 2023
OMG, clearly #AmazonDrivers need to go back to school to learn how to read. My name is May. How in the bloody hell do you deliver a package with the name of Christina? nOt only that, the address on the box isn't close to the same! My 6 year old could do better if he could drive! Who the hel are you people hiring these days?