Amazon warehouse workers strike on Prime Day (Warren approves)

Amazon workers at a Minnesota warehouse are temporarily going on strike Monday, the first of two Prime Day summer sales, the Daily Beast reported.

Employees at the Shakopee, Minn., Amazon Fulfillment center said they will walk out out for a six-hour period overlapping with the morning and evening shifts.

The workers argue Amazon has failed to meet their demands, including converting more temp positions to Amazon employees and permanently easing productivity quotas that workers say make their jobs unsafe.

Several workers are traveling from Seattle to join the protests outside of Minneapolis, according to a statement from Amazon Employees For Climate Justice.

Amazon has disputed the employees' allegations about working conditions. The online retailer said that on average, 90 percent of associates at the Shakopee fulfillment center are full-time employees and more than 30 have been offered full-time positions recently.

Prime Day, a global two-day discount of hundreds of products, is one of Amazon's busiest promotions.

Unions in Spain and Germany have staged Prime Day strikes in the past, but the walkout in Minnesota represents the first major action of its kind in the U.S. during the sales event.

"I fully support Amazon workers' Prime Day strike," the Massachusetts senator tweeted. "Their fight for safe and reliable jobs is another reminder that we must come together to hold big corporations accountable."

From what I hear, working conditions at Amazon locations can be atrocious. If they want to gamble their jobs against better conditions, I support their right to do so. This is America after all, and they aren’t exactly risking vital infrastructure by flipping off left wing giant Amazon/Bezos. Amazon can, of course, choose to fire them. But Amazon might have a hard time replacing them all.

Bunch of big whiney babies. They’re paid higher wages than most low skilled part time workers. They knew the pay when they showed up on their first day of work. There’s a really neat thing about working (or pretending to work) in America, they’re FREE to quit any time they wish. That said, I don’t like Amazon and don’t shop with them.

I know several people (five who work at three different Amazon warehouses) and every single one of them have told me that the conditions are NOT an issue! It is the lazy, lay-about types that want to check their phones every few minutes instead of work for their paychecks that complain about the job and conditions!

Since it’s Minnesota there are likely a lot of Somalis working there. They likely want to have paid prayer breaks where they can spend company time washing their feet and lifting their butts in the air. That is what the Somalis in Seattle who sued Hertz years ago wanted. They were let go unless they agreed not to use company time for their Islam crap. They all quit and then tried to sue to get their jobs back with the perks they wanted. They lost. Once in the first trial and lost again on appeal.

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