Two Amazon workers die on the same day after being denied sick leave

[DrunkenNovice]

They have a system called "unpaid personal time" and the give employees 80 hours of it a year, 20 hours every three months. They dont have sick leave and they dont accept doctors notes, you're supposed to use your upt to cover any sick leave.

You can use those hours anytime you want for any reason but if you run out they'll fire you. I remember alot of people would get fired for using their hours to leave early or go in late and end up not having enough hours when they needed them.

Seems like this was the situation

Is there an article to go with this


It’s 2022

we can’t just believe a headline right

2 Amazon workers die within hours of each other after being denied sick leave

 

[NoMorePie]

Is there an article to go with this


It’s 2022

we can’t just believe a headline right

According to Thomas, one of the employees, from his department, but on a different shift, had complained of not feeling well. The employee inquired with both HR and management as to his options, but was left with no choice as he didn’t have enough unpaid time. Thomas explains that employees are “terrified” of being dismissed if they take more time off than they are allotted.
“They’re effectively telling him, you either go home and lose your job, or you just stay here and keep working through the pain. And that’s what he did.”
That employee suffered a stroke on the site in a trailer shortly after the request. The employee’s body was discovered almost 20 minutes after he hadn’t been seen for a while.
Connelly explained to More Perfect Union that the employee died alone. “He was not supposed to be in a trailer by himself. There is always supposed to be someone [else] in the trailer or at the end of the trailer to keep an eye on you, just in case something falls… we all know that that was wrong.”
Hours apart, a second employee died at a hospital after being transported away from the facility in an ambulance.


According to both, managers at Amazon instructed workers to not talk about the deaths and continue working.
“There is no shut down. There is no moment of silence. There is no time to sit and have a prayer,” Connelly says. “A couple of people that worked directly with him were badly shaken up and wanted to go home and were not allowed to go home.”
Both Thomas and Connelly called the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to inquire about the conditions at the warehouse. According to Connelly, upon discussion, OSHA shared they were only notified of the worker’s death on the site, not the worker’s death that occurred at the hospital.
A total of six employees have died at the same facility in 2021 alone.
Earlier this year, Bessemer Amazon employees tried to unionize in response to dangerous working conditions and unfair scheduling. The union attempt was defeated by a 1798 to 738 vote.

 

[You Win Perfect]

20 hours a quarter of unpaid time that ain’t shyt.
Sick leave should be paid and mandatory

They have a system called "unpaid personal time" and the give employees 80 hours of it a year, 20 hours every three months. They dont have sick leave and they dont accept doctors notes, you're supposed to use your upt to cover any sick leave.

You can use those hours anytime you want for any reason but if you run out they'll fire you. I remember alot of people would get fired for using their hours to leave early or go in late and end up not having enough hours when they needed them.

 

[skylove4]

According to Thomas, one of the employees, from his department, but on a different shift, had complained of not feeling well. The employee inquired with both HR and management as to his options, but was left with no choice as he didn’t have enough unpaid time. Thomas explains that employees are “terrified” of being dismissed if they take more time off than they are allotted.
“They’re effectively telling him, you either go home and lose your job, or you just stay here and keep working through the pain. And that’s what he did.”
That employee suffered a stroke on the site in a trailer shortly after the request. The employee’s body was discovered almost 20 minutes after he hadn’t been seen for a while.
Connelly explained to More Perfect Union that the employee died alone. “He was not supposed to be in a trailer by himself. There is always supposed to be someone [else] in the trailer or at the end of the trailer to keep an eye on you, just in case something falls… we all know that that was wrong.”
Hours apart, a second employee died at a hospital after being transported away from the facility in an ambulance.


According to both, managers at Amazon instructed workers to not talk about the deaths and continue working.
“There is no shut down. There is no moment of silence. There is no time to sit and have a prayer,” Connelly says. “A couple of people that worked directly with him were badly shaken up and wanted to go home and were not allowed to go home.”
Both Thomas and Connelly called the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to inquire about the conditions at the warehouse. According to Connelly, upon discussion, OSHA shared they were only notified of the worker’s death on the site, not the worker’s death that occurred at the hospital.
A total of six employees have died at the same facility in 2021 alone.
Earlier this year, Bessemer Amazon employees tried to unionize in response to dangerous working conditions and unfair scheduling. The union attempt was defeated by a 1798 to 738 vote.

It’s utterly amazing how poor working class Americans have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into thinking unions are bad

i know some are scared, thinking if they vote in favor, they will loose their jobs,but a lot of them eat the propaganda

 

[powmia]

I bet them workers in Amazon Alabama will vote for a union now. Its fukked up how cacs in the south can easily sway workers to vote against there own best interest.

Amazon ordered to hold new union election at Alabama facility

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

It’s utterly amazing how poor working class Americans have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into thinking unions are bad

i know some are scared, thinking if they vote in favor, they will loose their jobs,but a lot of them eat the propaganda

I’ve worked at a union place before and pro union but in this situation, a union can not save you. If you have no sick leave or whatever left, you can’t go home sick. You get a certain amount which the union negotiated in the contract.

This is a bad luck situation and bro should have went home. He wasn’t denied anything, he used up his time.

This is misleading

 

[El Bombi]

Seems like this was the situation



2 Amazon workers die within hours of each other after being denied sick leave

Damn, this same Bessemer, Alabama location stay having people dying.

I'm surprised Amazon hasn't shut this location down.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Amazon is a low class job and like other low class jobs you dont get such amenities as sick leave just like McDonald's dont give that shyt either. Don't realize Amazon warehouse is a low class job because it's a brand name brehs

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Meanwhile.....

Ah but that same day shipping and delivery.....

The problem is that his salary isn't 78.5M a year. It's far less. If you divided his stocks or something maybe.

 

[MoveForward]

I’m not going to work if I don’t feel it, let alone if I’m sick. They won’t just fire you because you miss a couple of days here and there.

 

[El Bombi]

Amazon is a low class job and like other low class jobs you dont get such amenities as sick leave just like McDonald's dont give that shyt either. Don't realize Amazon warehouse is a low class job because it's a brand name brehs

Actually Amazon does offer sick leave.

I think it's something going on with this specific Bessemer, Alabama location.

 

[Da King]

But that unnecessary same day delivery

 

[jadillac]

How does their sick leave work? Because I thought you couldn’t deny sick leave. I’ve literally never asked to take a sick leave I just call off and say I’m sick and they take me off the schedule for like a week.

Maybe they don't get denied overtly, but more of a "oh you sick huh....you want a day off "

 

[Spence]

Modern day chattel slavery

 

[AAKing23]

nikka fukk a job