Amazon threatens to halt all activity in France after being accused of not protecting workers enough - wagie wagie get in death cagie

PARIS — Amazon threatened Wednesday to suspend all activity in France after a French court found it wasn’t doing enough to protect its workers from the coronavirus.

The online giant also announced plans to appeal Tuesday’s emergency ruling, which requires Amazon to stop selling nonessential goods for a month while it works out new worker safety measures.

Sales of food, medicine and hygiene supplies are still allowed under the ruling. However, Amazon France said in a statement Wednesday that the decision is so disruptive that it could prompt the company to suspend all activity at its six French warehouses.

The company stressed the importance of its services to the “thousands of French companies that sell on Amazon” and “millions of people around the country who want to have access to products they need during the crisis.”

Amazon insisted that it is providing adequate security measures for staff, noting the implementation of temperature checks and mask distribution.

But the court found Amazon didn’t do enough to enforce social distancing, to ensure that turnstiles and locker rooms were virus-free, or to increase cleaning of its warehouses. Unions say one worker infected with the virus is in intensive care.

Amazon threatens to halt all activity in France after being accused of not protecting workers enough

A French court's emergency ruling Tuesday requires Amazon to stop selling nonessential goods for a month while it works out new worker safety measures.

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They have a new design, it includes an oxygen mask and even a ventilator for the worst case scenario!

There's nothing wrong with this economic system, go back to work and be a good little slave. The most honorable death is to die working to make our capitalist gods money!

All heil our capitalist Gods for being so kind to the mere worker.

Heil victory!
Heil capitalism!
HEIL GDP!

 

[GriffithWasRight88]

How much of a presence does Amazon have as an employer in France? Are we talking about a dozens of potential lay offs? Thousands?

over 7500 according to this article

https://www.thelocal.fr/20180215/amazon-primed-to-hire-2000-new-employees-in-france

the problem isn't even the employees, its that amazon delivers goods for a lot of people who can't get them otherwise and provides in the modern days what can be considered an essential service
sucks that people are losing their job but better they don't catch corona, that would hurt the economy more in the long term

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

It tells me that they're afraid of a change to the status quo. I'm not a commie, but this is hardly an argument; you might as well say that every German is complicit in the Holocaust because they didn't try to swarm the Reichstag en masse. Every dominant system will naturally structure itself such that any people with political power are incentivised to uphold the system in proportion to their power. In the case of the working class, this is done through fear of financial instability.
The US's current ultracapitalist system arised as a knee-jerk reaction to the Cold War and the ideological conflict contained within, and it is a terrible idea. Without any meaningful checks, the capitalist system moves towards the greatest source of profit-generation, not anything that is good for people. Indeed, it necessarily moves away from what is good for people, as things such as human rights, a living wage, and environmental regulations are things that are not maximizing profit, which means that, eventually, they must be eliminated in the name of profit. But that's fine, because it's owning the libs and communists, right?

This "ultracapitalist" system is way more regulated than it was before the Cold War and is always getting more regulated.

 

[Gar For Archer]

over 7500 according to this article

https://www.thelocal.fr/20180215/amazon-primed-to-hire-2000-new-employees-in-france

the problem isn't even the employees, its that amazon delivers goods for a lot of people who can't get them otherwise and provides in the modern days what can be considered an essential service
sucks that people are losing their job but better they don't catch corona, that would hurt the economy more in the long term

2 day delivery is a luxury, not an essential service. What exactly are people buying on Amazon that can’t be purchased elsewhere online? People use Amazon because it’s convenient, not because it’s the only option that exists.

 

[DuckSucker]

Ive always been pretty left leaning but Cowboy Liberal, this should be the slap to the face to show how stupid and shitty globalism is and how we should move away from relying solely on globalism (megacorporations and monopolies, letting one country have so much shit -- Ive always leaned more towards smaller businesses, more competition, opportunities, and trustbusting type shit even if it makes the economy more volatile, it prevents 1%er type situations and shit like how much power Google and Amazon has), or even primarily on globalism and a global economy (especially in regards to "the human condition" -- which needs to exist to be trotted out to justify shit, however will never be properly addressed or dealt with) but realistically I know this will only further speed shit up as globalists argue "We actually need MORE automation and to remove 90% of workers in any service industry because robots cant get sick or spread disease!"

I just think this type of shit is stupid. I dont know much about it but I have a lot of stupid thoughts about it, I guess.

 

[Ledian]

Something that Amazon execs and Bezos seems to have forgotten: people can simply go out to a store and buy what they need instead. If Amazon won't deliver, then a brick and mortar will. With the current situation, yes that's hard, but once it's over and Amazon still has the plug pulled, I don't think the French will be too fussed about heading out to Carrefour or a mall for some random shit. For fucks sake the French invented the hypermarket with Carrefour.
Call the bluff France, Amazon is getting too up in its britches about how important it is. Convenient yes, but Amazon isn't the only retailer in the world.

 

[KiwiJoe]

I can't wait for the French Reich, that will be the funniest part of this shit.

Marshal Petain rises from his grave...

 

[Antipathy]

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Marshal Petain rises from his grave...

Nazi Zombie Frenchman might be the weirdest part of this timeline so far.

 

[Snekposter]

Weirdest? I prefer "most metal". He can get some zombie Legion Etrangere called back to service to help overthrow the granny-fetish cuck running the show currently, and his good friend zombie Pershing can go on a Second Punitive Expedition to end the cartels.