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Re:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage a... by olliej on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:12PM (#21184122)
Well, Amazon also employs more people than entire industries, and has a long track record of grotesque Labour abuses, so this is just an additional data point for when people ask why amazon is awful
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage a... by greggman2 on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:32PM (#21184344)
It's still less then a 1/3 as many employees as Walmart

Looks like they had similar issues?

https://www.plbsh.com/jury-awards-walmart-employees-6-millio...

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage a... by smacktoward on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:16PM (#21185485)
"We only treat our warehouse workers as badly as Walmart does!" is not exactly a rousing defense.
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage a... by nonfamous on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:04PM (#21186468)
The workers in this case were employed by a contractor to Amazon. They were not Amazon employees.
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage a... by olliej on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:06PM (#21184716)
yes, and there have been numerous articles about Walmart being terrible as well :-/
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