red_harrington
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Amazon only makes several BILLION pounds in profit every year
So no, they don't need it and it will **** me right off if they they get it
Amazon coming to Teesside
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Amazon only makes several BILLION pounds in profit every year
So no, they don't need it and it will **** me right off if they they get it
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Cooper671
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Not sure what anti trust laws are but if they do mass recruitment in our area above national wage, supporting employment law im all for it
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Here you go, educate yourself...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/10/amazon-charged-with-abusing-eu-competition-rules
Amazon illegally uses the data of the sellers it hosts to identify the most profitable products and then begins to sell these thus destroying the original seller. It's abhorrent because the sellers are bound up good and proper. Leave Amazon and lose sales or stay with Amazon and lose sales.
Mass recruitment on an Amazon warehouse will slowly morph into mass unemployment from small scale sellers and family owed business in the surrounding areas and beyond.
They pay 9.70 an hour. If that's a serviceable living wage in exchange for grinding down human bodies in those gulag warehouses then I am a fecking Dutchman.
Taking a 5.3m grant from an already underfunded council sums them up. **** Amazon.
EDIT: Incorrectly posted the hourly rate as 8 quid. I absolutely stand by my assertion that 9.70 isn't a living wage.
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WoodallServices
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Taking £5.3m off a cash strapped local council and therefore local people is beyond belief but not totally unexpected from the likes of Jeff Bezos!
Same_as_before
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£8 a hour is libel.
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Duly edited with reference to original post. I stand by everything I said and I could point out I didn't specifically refer to jobs in the UK so your libel assertions is spurious but let's not quibble over semantics.
Same_as_before
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So people in Billingham will be paid In something different to Sterling?
I know there people who work there, all say the working conditions are excellent and the benefits very good.
I have no quibble with your points, but they will have a humongous PR.
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Looks like you are one of the humongous PR. All the worse if you don’t even get paid for it.
Redwurzel
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I rarely use Amazon to buy stuff - I like to visit retailers or deal with their own websites etc. I can understand some people need to do things very quickly but a lot of people could avoid using Amazon. I don't find Amazon much cheaper when I check out prices. They must be making good profit margins but never declare much in the way of profit (in the UK anyway). I read many people in their warehouses are employed by agencies not Amazon. If someone is very good they are then transferred to Amazon say after 12 months.
If we don't use a range of retailers and outlets I know they will be gone and there will be just be Amazon which feel me with dread. I try to look at the bigger picture when using retailers etc, but I am far from perfect. Examples buy from local food producers, use the Co-op (sometimes), on Teesside people could say use Charles Clinkard for footwear, Newboulds when it was open for meat, Thomas the Baker/Danby Bakery, local building societies rather than multinational banks, local chemists like Coopers, independent book shops. Amazon business model is to minimise declared profit and thus tax. This drives up the share price which gives those at the top of the Company their greatest renumeration. It also squeezes the competition out, leaving consumers with less and less choice in the long term.
Amazon jobs for Teesside is better than no jobs at all, but I would be careful if I was a local council about giving them your local funds. I doubt they bring in a lot of associated jobs, that say the SSI Steel works did. And as said they will be a lot of £9/hour jobs (£16k a year) but not many well paid jobs (£30k plus/year).
If we don't use a range of retailers and outlets I know they will be gone and there will be just be Amazon which feel me with dread. I try to look at the bigger picture when using retailers etc, but I am far from perfect. Examples buy from local food producers, use the Co-op (sometimes), on Teesside people could say use Charles Clinkard for footwear, Newboulds when it was open for meat, Thomas the Baker/Danby Bakery, local building societies rather than multinational banks, local chemists like Coopers, independent book shops. Amazon business model is to minimise declared profit and thus tax. This drives up the share price which gives those at the top of the Company their greatest renumeration. It also squeezes the competition out, leaving consumers with less and less choice in the long term.
Amazon jobs for Teesside is better than no jobs at all, but I would be careful if I was a local council about giving them your local funds. I doubt they bring in a lot of associated jobs, that say the SSI Steel works did. And as said they will be a lot of £9/hour jobs (£16k a year) but not many well paid jobs (£30k plus/year).
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Same_as_before
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I agree with most of what you said, why you needed to lie about the pay rates I don't know.
The starting salary is close to £20,000. One of the guys I know worked for one of the big plumbing companies and was getting threatened with depot closure for years, no pay increase for 5. He says with 8 hours overtime he earns more than he did without 2 hours a day travel.
Good luck to the people who get jobs in Wynyard, I hope they do well.
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Physical Demands:
The role involves the following physical demands on a daily basis:
• Standing and/or walking for long periods of between 8 and 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Lifting and moving products up to 23kg in weight
• Lifting, bending, reaching above the head, kneeling, crouching, and/or stretching for 8 to 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Pushing and pulling product up to 23kg in weight for 8 to 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Manual dexterity of both hands and wrists
• Working on a secure mezzanine at a height of between 9 to 12 meters (equivalent to a 3 or 4 storey building)
• Regularly climbing and descending four flights of stairs safely
£9.70 an hour and you’re defending this mob of parasites
The role involves the following physical demands on a daily basis:
• Standing and/or walking for long periods of between 8 and 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Lifting and moving products up to 23kg in weight
• Lifting, bending, reaching above the head, kneeling, crouching, and/or stretching for 8 to 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Pushing and pulling product up to 23kg in weight for 8 to 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Manual dexterity of both hands and wrists
• Working on a secure mezzanine at a height of between 9 to 12 meters (equivalent to a 3 or 4 storey building)
• Regularly climbing and descending four flights of stairs safely
£9.70 an hour and you’re defending this mob of parasites
Same_as_before
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No I am not, I am just telling the truth, from the mouths of people who work there.
Standard full time is less than 8 hours, again why the need to lie?
I think you would prefer the individuals to be out of work .
Standard full time is less than 8 hours, again why the need to lie?
I think you would prefer the individuals to be out of work .
Same_as_before
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Pay more for your goods, the rest is made up.
Same_as_before
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I am old and well past climbing any greasy poll. But I can tell you that if You ever go into a meeting at any level and someone proves that your facts are bogus by intent , the rest of the meeting you will be ignored. You will not recover.
A good reason to ignore Boris.
A good reason to ignore Boris.
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Thanks for the advice. I am doing okay on my own.
I do take issue with you insinuating I am a bare faced liar.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45717768
13 days ago Amazon paid 8 pound an hour so actually all of those warehouse staff have not received a monthly pay with the new rate.