WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — On Sunday, The New York Times published a report exposing tough working conditions for Amazon employees, including working four consecutive days, employees routinely bursting into tears and being encouraged to report on each other.
“For a company that views itself as the embodiment of 21st century technology and innovation, it is a sad irony that Amazon exhibits attitudes toward its workforce that would have been familiar to the employees of a 19th century textile mill,” Nova said on Monday.
The report cited cases of a woman with breast cancer being put on a “performance-improvement” plan, and another woman who had a stillborn child was put on the same plan.
Nova said there has been “mounting evidence” to prove Amazon is a “usually ruthless employer” who treats their blue collar workers even worse than the white collar workers depicted by the US newspaper expose.
Worker Rights Consortium is an independent labor rights monitoring organization at factories across the United States.
