To: Amazon
Tell Amazon: Stop using automated quotas to work employees to death!
Using automated productivity quotas to push workers harder and harder is inhumane and morally objectionable. Even worse, more and more workers are pushing themselves to the brink just to keep up, resulting in workplace injuries and even death. We demand that you stop using automated quotas for fulfillment center workers.
Why is this important?
In September, Billy Foister had a heart attack at work and collapsed. In any other workplace, he would have gotten immediate medical attention. But Billy Foister worked at an Amazon warehouse, and instead he laid on the floor for 20 minutes and eventually died.
His co-workers were told to get back to work immediately.
That this could happen at all is terrifying, but what’s even more insidious is why: because Amazon places more importance on automated productivity quotas than the value of human life.
No amount of next-day or same-day shipping is worth the human cost that Amazon demands of their warehouse workers. That’s why, as consumers, our voices are particularly important. We can push back against Amazon, just like tech workers and warehouse workers all across the country are doing, and demand more humane working conditioning.
His co-workers were told to get back to work immediately.
That this could happen at all is terrifying, but what’s even more insidious is why: because Amazon places more importance on automated productivity quotas than the value of human life.
No amount of next-day or same-day shipping is worth the human cost that Amazon demands of their warehouse workers. That’s why, as consumers, our voices are particularly important. We can push back against Amazon, just like tech workers and warehouse workers all across the country are doing, and demand more humane working conditioning.