Unions says Amazon 'Prime Day' puts extra strain on workers

Amazon employees load packages on carts before being put on to trucks for distribution for the company's annual Prime Day event at a delivery station, July 16, 2024, in South Gate, California. Warehouse workers 'pay the price' of e-commerce giant's deals rush, say unions. — AP

BRUSSELS: Dehumanised and disposable is how Amazon workers in Poland, Germany and France described how they felt working in the online retail giant's warehouses.

"You are no longer Julie or Ludovic, you are number 412, and you can be replaced by number 313," El Djoudi Laouedj, an area manager and trade union member at Amazon's Lauwin-Planque warehouse in France told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.