America's Workers' Lives Matter

Workers to be too, those being smuggled across the borders...

Don't look away this Christmas time, America. Maybe ask, who's showing up to work those shifts to put presents under your family trees? 

Equal treatment for American labor. Get into those workplaces and enforce labor laws. Make sure the person on the badge who's been hired is the worker who shows up to lift the boxes, not a relative or friend.

To hell with charitable contributions, Amazon makes so much -- and your stock is reaping rewards -- because they treat their workers cheaply, maximizing profits at human expense.

Jeff Bezos, be not proud. 

He should be demanding that all his warehouses figure out a way to automate the shift count of the workers scheduled, noting who shows and who fails to show for a shift, so the next time an act of God happens, he is prepared to say, "These are our people. Together, let's work to find them. They worked for our company... They're ours."

Not slaves, just American workers.

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Of course, scheduling in advance means you lose flexibility in letting workers go early when trucks don't show, adding same day shift signups, and OT mandates and opportunities when the lines are volume heavy and slow moving, etc. 

That can be hard on the body, not to mention make but impossible to guesstimate how many people were actually working, and where, at any time:. they jump you from line to line with the volume. (It's one reason the spread of Covid was rampant inside the factories last year and couldn't be tracked by line or shift, even. Also, lowered immunity of many newcomers working several physical jobs and neglecting sleep.)

The practices that benefit Amazon, and bring revenue to local regions, in the end aren't healthy for labor. If you better factor in human costs, the goods coming to you from most likely China are costing this country more than you'd think. 

We all know that now. Now what?