| Patrice Riemens on Fri, 25 May 2018 12:04:03 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> In Italy: First-ever agreement between Amazon and unions |
On 2018-05-25 11:47, nettime's avid reader wrote:
http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/first-ever-agreement-between-amazon-and-unions-halts-inhumane-work-hours-italy Amazon employees in Italy have made history. Workers are announcing today the first-ever direct agreement between unions and the company anywhere in the world. The Italian agreement tackles inhumanescheduling, one of the core labour problems at Amazon fulfilment centresglobally.
Breaking down the totally insane labour conditions imposed by big players in the 'new'/'gig' economy will only be achieved under the twin pressure of resolute actions, including sabotage, by the workers themselves, and by 'institutional' pressures exercised by traditional, established trade unions, which should conduct energetic enrolment drives under such workers, but also 'represent' them even if they are not card carrying (and dues paying) members.
For the time beeing, unions, esp in N.Europe (outside Germany) lag sorely behind. As they say in India, this is 'highly shameful'.
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