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Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage ‘we are not robots’ protests

The conditions our members at Amazon are working under are frankly inhuman. They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances. We’re standing up and saying enough is enough, these are people making Amazon its money. People with kids, homes, bills to pay — they’re not robots.

Does he have a favourite robot? “I actually do. 64117. There’s a kind of leaderboard system that tracks each drive unit [a droid in Amazon lingo, Ed.], and I follow them all. 64117 has travelled only 164 metres the whole time it’s been here. It’s the laziest drive we’ve got. It’s got the work/life balance worked out.”

The Guardian