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Amazon insists striking delivery drivers don’t really work for Amazon (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Chup@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

To give an insight how it looks outside of the US/in Europe:

Amazon does not (or cannot) tell the contractors what the drivers should wear or how the vehicles look. Usually it's a plain white van, sometimes even a rental company logo on its side. The drivers just wear whatever they found in their closet.

So it's way more visual that they are working for a contractor logistics company and not employed by Amazon.

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"they're not employees, they're contractors!"

[–] swnt@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Classic exploitation strategies!