Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Monday, September 26, 2011

Reading this,

and reading the comments, is making me rethink my purchasing from Amazon.

Inside Amazon's warehouse: Lehigh Valley workers tell of brutal heat, dizzying pace at online retailer.

Unfortunately, it's just one side of the story, and, as we know, the media always goes for the most sensational. So, is it as bad as they say? Is Amazon as bad as they say? I'm not sticking up for them, as I think about Karen Silkwood and Kerr-McGee, but is it as bad as they say?

I really want to know. I don't trust the employers accounts or government reports, but I've been a labour activist long enough to know that employees sometimes say things that aren't entirely accurate either. I just don't know...




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