Amazon
Order-pickers working in Amazon’s German warehouses have been fighting back against the multinational giant since last spring, staging a number of walk-outs in protest over wages and conditions.
Amazon (which maintains the pretence that order-pickers don’t count as retail staff, only as even cheaper-labour ‘logistics workers’) imposes a draconian labour discipline on staff, with unremitting hard physical labour, endless monitoring and little or no job security.
These punishing work conditions are not limited to Amazon’s German operations, as was revealed in an undercover BBC investigation, which placed a reporter in an Amazon warehouse in Swansea.
The reporter wore a pedometer, which indicated that he was walking as much as 11 miles as he navigated around the 800,000 square foot of storage, struggling to meet the target of picking one order every 33 seconds. His performance was monitored by the scanner he was given, along with the warning of disciplinary action should he fail to meet targets.
The courageous German workers are the first of Amazon’s global employees to take such action, taking their protest all the way to the company’s headquarters in Seattle. The fact that Germany is Amazon’s second-largest market makes this initiative of particular importance.
The company’s recent comments about the possibility of delivering its products by robotic drones suggest a hankering after a world where obedient automatons take the place of troublesome proletarians. Yet without living labour to exploit, capital would cease to feed on surplus value and at once asphyxiate. So Amazon is condemned to keep producing its own gravediggers ...
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=999http://
I have finally figured out how to do links 
no i haven't - link doesn't work 
but it does take you to the source 
for anyone wanting some fun or information, please refer to the op.
@languidlady49 wrote:actually boris I find that quite an interesting and informative article. I also do not have aproblem with unions particularly, as they are necessary in a lot of cases. My beef is that every thread turns into an Abbott bashing rant about people arriving by boats, whatever the original subject.
languid, your beef is a little misinformed, counting the first 13 threads this morning not one single one mentions the slogan in a suit, it is impossible however to stop people from bringing up whatever they want on threads.
