The need for a union

I cannot begin to express the need our Amazon FC has for a Union. Want examples? Here goes:

1)Recently in an "All Hands" meeting a kid stood up and was talking about how bad morale is. He received thunderous applause as our new GM stood there with a smug look on his face. The kid made a joke about getting girls phone numbers. He was put on two weeks probation after sitting in HR for hours. Everyone knew it was a joke, but he made the GM look bad. Retaliation was swift.

2) Amazon is the perfect example of why Socialism is a failed experiment.

There are three tiers of pay before you are salaried. In our FC, tier 1 (90% of the people here)starts at $11 an hr. After three years it maxes out at $12.25. That's it. Until you move to tier 2.....oh yea.....there are no tier 2 positions!!! Only tier 3 supervisor positions. That's convenient.

So if you're a Problem Solver in charge of thousands of dollars of inventory, with the ability to make huge adjustments at the click of a mouse. Or you're an Amnesty Tech in charge of going out on the Kiva Floor and fixing the drives and reclaiming thousands of dollars of inventory. Keeping stations running and pickers, stowers, and counters working. Doing a lot of Kiva Tech functions while making 10 dollars an hour less than them. You make the same amount of money as the person counting product, or putting product physically into a POD, or picking it out. 

More responsibility, same pay. In some jacked up alternate reality, I'm sure that makes sense.

3) And then there's HR. I have never seen a more clueless, incompetent HR department in any place I have ever worked in my life. They constantly screw up people's time. They will give you a new schedule then forget to input it. You go to work and they call you into HR. They will tell you are out of time (you run out of time and you're fired, no questions asked) and you have to spend the next few hours fighting for your time back that never should have been taken in the first place. It has happened to literally dozens of people I know.

Those are just a few examples of things that go on at our FC. There are literally hundreds of stories that people can tell you. I'm not a fan of Unions, I never have been, but I have never worked at a place that needed one more. Let it start here.