When Big Brother Is Your Boss: The Rise of Surveillance Wages
Co-published with The Nation. Everything the Internet knows about you may end up being used against you by your employer.
This Amazon Grocery Runner Has Risked Her Job to Fight for Better Safety Measures
Co-published with In These Times. Courtenay Brown knows she could be on the streets if she loses her job at an Amazon Fresh unit. She’s speaking …
Amazon Expects Its Employees to Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines. This Amazon Picker Is Fighting Back.
Co-published with In These Times. Inspired by his father and grandfather, Sean Carlisle is organizing to win stronger safety measures for his fellow workers.
The Amazon Delivery Service Worker Who’d Finally Seen Enough
Co-published with In These Times. As a driver for an Amazon subcontractor, Frank Chavez encountered unsanitary conditions—including bottles of his coworkers’ urine. Now he’s standing up …
Meet the Warehouse Worker Who Took On Amazon Over Inhumane Conditions and Harassment
Co-published with In These Times. Hibaq Mohamed organized her community in a fight against Amazon, protesting working conditions at a fulfillment center with one of the …
How the CARES Act Hurts Low-Wage Workers
Co-published with Dame Magazine. Employees of big retailers have become the backbone of American life under coronavirus quarantine. But even a new paid-leave law doesn't protect …
Beyond $15 An Hour?
Co-published with NY Daily News. Benefits: Wages are nice, but health care and other basics are far more important.
What Is Amazon Really Delivering?
Co-published with Reuters. The company recently announced 6,000 new full-time openings at 19 of its distribution centers. Eager applicants are lining up to join the ranks of …