Amazon warehouses are the 21st Century’s dark satanic mills, staff in the giant “fulfilment centres” worked so hard they fall asleep, exhausted, in the toilet.
So many employees complain of slave-driver conditions and inhuman targets that the US international corporation’s slick PR excuses are no longer believed.
Complaints from pregnant women and injured workers add to a grim picture of toiling in close to unbearable conditions on low wages in a multi-billion-pound organisation.
If everything was as sweet as Amazon claims, it would not fear trade unions organising the workforce.
So we challenge the company to invite union representatives on to their premises to ask staff if they want to join.
Amazon’s services are used by millions, yet the firm is accused of failing in its duty to treat workers responsibly, pay them decently and recognise something is still fundamentally wrong when growing numbers employees complain their warehouses are sweat shops.
The firm sells an Amazon Prime service.
It’s time Amazon became a prime employer.
Blame Boris
People searching for someone to blame for the frustrating Brexit crisis should look at Boris Johnson.
The absence of trust in the serial liar is at the root of Parliament’s refusal to give the slippery PM a blank cheque.
Northern Ireland’s 10 DUP MPs discovered his deceitful nature the hard way when he went back on solemn pledges never to propose a customs border down the Irish Sea.
Brexit could still go ahead when a catastrophic no deal is ruled out.
Untrustworthy Johnson is not the answer, but a major part of the problem.
Best of wealth
Fortune smiled on Desiree and Wayne Home when the couple forced by unemployment to sell their house won £1million.
Their story of restored health and wealth is a lesson on why we must never give up in life.
