![]() In this respect, the Black Lives Matter protests, which in June set the U.S. ![]() society is grounded, systematically translating them into wage and power hierarchies within its warehouses, where the workforce is predominantly Black and Latinx. At the same time, Zama shows how Amazon exploits the racial hierarchies upon which U.S. This attempt by Amazon is part of a broader tendency of logistics companies to take advantage of the pandemic by blackmailing workers, especially women and migrants in order to change shifts to their advantage and to lengthen the working day. Zama describes the impact that the “megacycle shift” will have on the life rhythms of workers in general, but particularly of women, who are forced into a double burden of exploitation in domestic and reproductive labor, and who would have to face an impossible alternative between a family crisis and an economic crisis. delivery stations, to allow for customers’ orders to be immediately processed up until midnight. Amazon will guarantee the transfer to one of the new warehouses only to employees who will accept the “megacycle shift”, a night shift of more than ten hours (from 1.20 am to 11.50 am) that the company is introducing in all U.S. The DCH1 warehouse has been one of the most active in the struggles of the last year and, perhaps also for this reason, will be closed in the coming weeks. We publish an interview with Zama, a worker in the Amazon DCH1 warehouse in Chicago, member of both Amazonians United Chicagoland and Amazon Workers International. INTERVIEW WITH ZAMA, Amazonians United Chicagoland, Chicago, US
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