{"id":35168,"date":"2021-04-22T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=35168"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:26:09","slug":"action-for-amazon-whistleblowing-hotline-launched-for-south-yorkshire-amazon-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/action-for-amazon-whistleblowing-hotline-launched-for-south-yorkshire-amazon-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Action for Amazon&#8217;: Whistleblowing hotline launched for South Yorkshire Amazon workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new campaign for better treatment and working conditions of Amazon workers has ramped up with the launch of a new whistleblowing hotline.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Action on Amazon\u2019, led by Unite the Union, hopes the hotline can help workers in warehouses across the region raise concerns around working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Rollin of Unite the Union, said: \u201cWe are collecting all stories and then the next part of the campaign is launching a neutrality agreement which is a pledge by Amazon to not dismiss workers who want to unionise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will be an effort to persuade Amazon to guarantee workers\u2019 rights in the next stage of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>South Yorkshire is home to a number of large Amazon warehouses, most notably in a facility in Doncaster which employs a large number of people.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was launched two weeks ago, with a series of protests across the UK including one in Leeds last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rollin said: \u201cAmazon has been quite hostile to workers who want to organise themselves through unions and we can see that with the recent events in Alabama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month in the US state of Alabama, workers had rejected unionisation in an election. However, Amazon has been widely accused of interfering with that election.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35183\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35183\" class=\"wp-image-35183 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/04\/f49b6148-32e1-4584-9c0f-371609031bdf-1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Action on Amazon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anonymous testimonies on Action on Amazon\u2019s website allege mistreatment including one that claims workers testing positive for Covid-19 are not paid for the isolation period and continue to come to work.<\/p>\n<p>Another details the so-called &#8216;power hour&#8217; where workers are expected to meet high item targets in the last hour of the shift.<\/p>\n<p>The group is already working with activist across the four nations of the UK, as well as aiming to link up with similar groups around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Workers have been urged to contact the confidential hotline at 0800 14 14 61 to share their experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Action for Amazon&#8217; campaign is ramping up its activities to help Amazon&#8217;s workers in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":35184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[432,264,15,131,433,328],"class_list":["post-35168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-news","tag-south-yorkshire","tag-union","tag-workers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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