http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/15/1284525/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Workers-Huge-Amazon-wage-theft-case-goes-to-Supreme-Court?detail=email
Over the last couple years, a lawsuit by workers at Amazon warehouses has been making its way through the courts. Now, the Supreme Court has agreed to take it up. The workers claim that they were made to spend time off the clock going through security screenings, taking about 25 unpaid minutes each day. Being made to work off the clock is classic wage theft lawsuit material, but Bruce Vail writes, the stakes are unusually high in this case:
Mark Thierman, the Reno, Nev., lawyer representing Busk and Castro, says the lawsuit has since been joined by another 500 workers from other warehouses. If the suit is fully successful, he tells In These Times, the settlement could include back pay for as many as 500,000 workers (both permanent and temporary) from all of Amazon’s more than 50 U.S. warehouses. [...]
Since the circuit court ruling was in favor of the workers, there's reason for concern that the Supreme Court is hearing this case in order to decide that, yes, businesses can force workers to spend significant unpaid time going through required security screenings:“It’s always a little worrying when [the Supreme Court] agrees to take a case from the Ninth Circuit,” [attorney Brooke Lierman] says. Whereas the Ninth Circuit is considered by labor lawyers to be relatively liberal, the high court is considered very conservative, Lierman says, so there is concern that some Supreme Court judges are predisposed to overrule the Ninth Circuit. “There are justices on the Supreme Court who want to roll back the rights of workers,” she says.
are we looking at another in favor of big business decision by the scotus? i find it hard to believe that the ones who are the deciders don't see the inequity of many of their decisions,
like and most egregious the striking down of the section 4 of voting rights which led to minutes before republicans set about suppressing the Black vote followed by other racist gov't in red states.
to me that would have called for immediate reversal.
The first thing I noticed on my first day on the job is that in retail no one sits.Ever.It didn’t matter if it was at the beginning of my shift, if the store was empty, or if my knees, back, and feet ached from hours of standing. Park your behind while on the clock, went the unspoken rule, and you might find it on a park bench scanning the want-ads for a new job.Another quick observation: Working in retail takes more skill than just selling stuff. Besides the mindless tasks one expects—folding, stacking, sorting, fetching things for customers—I frequently had to tackle a series of housekeeping chores that Stretch never mentioned in our welcome-aboard chat. Performed during the late shift, those chores usually meant I’d have to stay well past the scheduled 9 p.m. quitting time.
republicans cozy up to the most reprehensible people in America those that support their slave master mentality, and it's not free for either side business pays and republicans try to deliver if successful "we the people" are the losers, if you hate being a loser vote Dem on Nov. 4th get paid for your worth not for what they'll toss you.
i have to confess i shop a lot at Amazon being disabled started to leave itout intentionally for fear of being a hypocrite, but i am and will shop their again because i can't go out to the malls, it does not lower the despicable workplace conditions but i think sometimes i might shop elsewhere online.
