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    Amazon’s new UK warehouses to hire thousands as Starmer hails ‘win’ for Britain

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    3. GayWolfey on

      Umm maybe he should try working there. Hire thousands yes. But treat them like shit. Hire agency so they can dismiss them the second there metrics drop below perfect.

      This is a reward for slave Labour not a win for Britain

    5. _franciis on

      Whilst in my town a locally owned manufacturing firm is struggling to expand because of NIMBYs.

      They want to develop a brownfield site owned by the council that is currently used as a storage site/dumping ground. The factory will produce no fumes (its high precision milling) and will have a few lorries and 50 cars heading in/out per day.

      But no, they should expand ‘outside’ the town, which would mean on greenfield land.

      Some people will never be happy.

    6. Dry_Membership_361 on

      How about a uk version of Amazon that doesn’t cause uk businesses to close down.

    7. WebDevWarrior on

      If tax dodging ([source](https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-campaigns-boycotts/amazon-uks-substantial-tax-avoidance)), killing people ([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_fatalities)), mass injuring people ([source](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyjm507462o)), using people like slaves ([source](https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/uk-workers-report-neglect-of-staff-wellbeing-at-amazon-warehouse-including-pressure-on-pregnant-women-to-meet-targets-staff-falling-asleep-in-toilet-cubicles/)), and abusing peoples basic human rights ([source](https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/09/they-treat-us-worse-than-animals-working-without-water-at-amazon)) is winning, I’d hate to see what Starmer thinks is losing!

    8. circleribbey on

      Yaaaay. Hundreds of poverty wage jobs at an American company that doesn’t pay their fair share of taxes in the U.K. and uses that fact to destroy the British high street. Such a win!

    9. jtrimm98 on

      Thousands of new jobs in the UK is great but on the other hand think of all the shops that have closed because people keep using Amazon. If something is cheap there’s a reason, usually exploitation

    10. hforharshul on

      Warehouse jobs aren’t exactly a win for an advanced economy. Not to mention Amazon (and others) continue to invest in automation technologies that’ll make these jobs redundant within ten years if not earlier. I don’t blame these companies – this is the pace of technological advancement and they can either innovate or go under. We should be trying to incentivise these and other companies to bring those high-skill R&D, and tech jobs to our shores! That’s the future!

    11. tezmo666 on

      Allowing mega corporations to get a stranglehold on our culture and americanise our towns is the reason why all of our high streets look like shit now btw. Bet they still won’t pay their fair share of corporation tax either.

    12. Micheal42 on

      Expanding the power base of a company that has demonstrated it is very happy to support the destruction of democracy and doesn’t even pay taxes to do so.

      What a win.

    13. FewEstablishment2696 on

      This is a damning indictment of the UK workforce. We shouldn’t be celebrating jobs like this if we want to maintain a half decent standard of living in the UK.

      Every single person working here will be taking out more than the pay in. This is not sustainable.

    15. PhysicalWave454 on

      I bet the people seeing this as a win are the same people complaining about the high street dying 😂

    16. margieler on

      More low income jobs in which workers are forced to have their babies in the toilet?!

      WOW!

    17. win_some_lose_most1y on

      These guys are Awful.

      We shouldn’t be inviting them and thier basically illegal labour practices into the country.

      I’m completely done with starmer now. A spineless neoliberal.

    18. Cielo11 on

      I work on the other side of this doing Delivery work (my 2nd job, its flexible around my first job), I don’t do it directly with Amazon but get Amazon stuff to deliver.

      Any work to do with Online Retail is savage. They are making everyone Self-Employed and cutting costs like maniacs, they run their businesses on shoe string budgets to make more profit and expect the workers to pick up the slack. Its a gold mine for the companies, they charge customers, take a huge cut, and pass on pennies to the people actually doing the work. They will stop at nothing to take money out of workers pockets and treat them like expendable garbage.

      When you work in these systems they don’t treat you like a human being.

      I’ve been in situations where I have to deliver a few items to businesses in a Country Park, it takes 10mins to drive into them, 5-10mins to deliver, 10mins to leave (without traffic). If you have say 5 items, that could be £3.00 pay. £3.00 for 30mins work. I have to pay for my Van, Insurance, Fuel (20mins driving) etc etc

      If you complain a delivery isn’t worth driving to, and refuse to do it, they tell you you will have you Delivery Round taken away from you. You’re just replaced by someone else. You have no rights.

      I feel Sir Keir should be taking more interest in how Online Retail and also the likes of Just Eat/Deliveroo is operating their Businesses, it feels very unregulated or too easy to abuse.

    19. EndlessWarehouses on

      Not a win whilst conditions in warehouses are the way they are. 

      Take advantage of immigrants who are much less likely to stand up for themselves. 

      Zero hours. No sick pay. No real maternity or paternity. No idea what shifts you’re on on next week. Suck up to the agency or get the chop! 

      Big up the Coventry lot who stand up to the shit. 

      Fuck warehouses. 

    20. mattscazza on

      How out of touch do you have to be to think that putting thousands more people into poor quality, working conditions, pay and security jobs for a company that makes billions of pounds of profit from their labour, while treating them like shit and not paying the correct amount of tax to the country is a win for Britain?

    21. ChooChooBananaTrain on

      Having worked at an Amazon warehouse this is a win for nobody but Jeff.

    22. MrSierra125 on

      Well done Starmer, thousands in slave labour conditions. Maybe give a tax discount to piss bottle manufacturers

    24. BusyBeeBridgette on

      Ah yes, Amazon warehouse. Where they barely pay the minimum and expect you to work at 150% 24/7 otherwise they’ll fire you.

    25. TheOgrrr on

      Treated like Robots. Congratulations to Amazon for making McJob look like a dream job.

    27. No-Newt6243 on

      Amazon – gutting the heart out of the high street while paying less rates than the average retailer