Amazon’s Creepy Fight Against Unionization Has Reached This Warehouse’s Bathrooms
Perry Connelly quickly noticed that something was off when he began working at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, last spring. Managers were unfriendly to the point of not acknowledging employees when they walked past, and they were quick to write people up for infractions that seemed minuscule or made-up, such as too much time “off-task.”
“The main thing was just the disrespect,” the 58-year-old told The Daily Beast. Any concern, even one related to safety, went unattended unless it was an emergency, he said.
“And it’s like a constant push, push to do work,” said Connelly, who works in the stowing department, moving and scanning products. Sometimes, he’s forced to wait around for other departments to deliver products to him for scanning. “So they threaten to write you up,” he said. “Or they will write you up for things that are out of our control.”