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Before they take it down, here's the video Amazon circulated internally to roll out what amounts to the largest expansion of corporate surveillance in human history: using artificial intelligence enabled cameras on their fleet of thousands of delivery vans https://t.co/CJy1jPj134 pic.twitter.com/TFIdScGoUV
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) February 4, 2021
Workers given two weeks to decide. Obviously some wouldn't even be able to get to the shift if public transport is not operating after midnight.
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 4, 2021
"It's not a real option. They're basically telling us 'you're fired." https://t.co/W3OhSdyGhB pic.twitter.com/cgS5MY1eV8
NEW: Amazon has shut down one of its best-organized warehouses and is moving the workers to separate warehouses, where they will be forced to work a "Megacycle" shift, in which workers come in at 1 am and leave at noonhttps://t.co/sKoC4z6iQj
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) February 4, 2021
Okay, but remember this: "Some drivers said they’re concerned the AI-equipped cameras will add further pressure to a job that already involves an intense workload of delivering hundreds of packages a day."
— Solveig ⚧ - Autistic Acceptance Worldwide (@autisticb4mmr) February 4, 2021
The intense workload is the root of nearly all their safety issues. https://t.co/vlXUAh3XpW
yet again reminded of a tweet I saw that was along the lines of “this Amazon van is speeding down my street with the door hanging open like he’s in a helicopter over Vietnam” https://t.co/7EosEnN3qV
— Alex Press (@alexnpress) February 4, 2021
It’s just so wild to me that Amazon frames driver safety as an issue of drivers not being disciplined enough instead of Amazon’s notoriously inhumane demands and working conditions https://t.co/FMtJ8PkNp8
— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) February 4, 2021
A must read account from an AMZN driver of what it’s like: “I am actually making negative weekly earnings. Numerous drivers I speak to have incurred debt in this way. The roads are icy but if we want a shovel or snow chains, we must provide them ourselves. Very few do this.” https://t.co/x7yGZxQLuM
— Veena Dubal (@veenadubal) February 4, 2021
i've never heard a single thing about amazon that isn't nightmarish https://t.co/v7S0EY0Ykd
— speedy ortiz ÷ haunted painting (@sad13) February 4, 2021
"Either work a 1 AM to noon shift or leave" is one of the best advertisements for unionizing Amazon warehouses I have ever heard. Excellent timing. https://t.co/12xTxauZCk
— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) February 4, 2021
PLEASE ACCEPT YOUR PARCEL. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY. https://t.co/mdw6jhu8yf pic.twitter.com/eLk9gLXjXC
— john (@johnsemley3000) February 4, 2021
Amazon is offering warehouse workers an ultimatum: work a 10.5 hour, overnight "megacycle" shift, or lose your jobhttps://t.co/F7S4q5R7Zv
— Katie Drummond (@katiedrumm) February 4, 2021
Qs for Amazon: 1) where are you uploading footage to 2) define "a limited set of authorized people" ... n) why should we believe these are the conditions you will abide by, now & into the future, when we have evidence you have lied about your shady business practices in the past? https://t.co/sb9irLYB9N pic.twitter.com/OnbzIwaNXh
— jane chung (@Jane24477) February 4, 2021
Amazon warehouse workers across the country are given an ultimatum: switch to a 10-hour graveyard shift or lose your job. https://t.co/kBtWGozOpu
— Emanuel Userberg#444579 (@emanuelmaiberg) February 4, 2021
I think @amazon is about to lose a lot of customers. This is unacceptable labor practice and demeaning of the humans who make the company work.
— Chris Heuer (@chrisheuer) February 4, 2021
I already know plenty of ppl who have quietly boycotted them. There will soon be many more who are much more vocal too. https://t.co/HP0NPlbpHV
As with much of Amazon’s massive surveillance apparatus, this appears wildly disproportionate to the threats it claims to be guarding against, e.g. package theft. https://t.co/C8RdkurApA
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) February 4, 2021
Not only is this terrifying Big Brother level stuff, it also enables the immediate gratification type of consumption we should be eradicating yesterday
— Joana Ramiro (@JoanaRamiroUK) February 4, 2021
As practical as next day delivery might be, it should be done sustainably (caring for environment and workers) or not at all https://t.co/xO3FvGeusP
Amazon has franchised out last mile delivery to small fleets called "Delivery Service Partners." Amazon minutely prescribes the work, and digitally monitors its performance.
— Brian Callaci (@brian_callaci) February 4, 2021
Yet legally the DSPs are independent, and the drivers are not Amazon employees. How is this possible? https://t.co/QS2nSBIUXo
How long before the data these cameras capture - and they don’t just point at the drivers - is packaged and sold? https://t.co/NcQTwLUwd9
— Travis Fain (@TravisFain) February 4, 2021
NEW: 75 workers are striking today at the site of a future Amazon warehouse in Oxnard, CA.
— Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) February 4, 2021
They've forced most of the construction operations, including a large crane, to come to a halt, union organizers tell me. https://t.co/o8eRp6bB25
This is a surveillance nightmare in a million different ways, not least of which is taking away one of the remaining few ways drivers can get a bathroom break: peeing in a bottle in the back of the truck. https://t.co/YPHDlsvYsW
— Elena Maris (@elenamaris1) February 4, 2021
So the company that was exposed for stealing over $60 million in tips now whats Independent Contractors to trust them w/ privacy? ? https://t.co/Z2sIN6zQmD
— Willy Solis (@WillySolis357) February 4, 2021
Yikes @amazon is requiring driver surveillance cameras on trucks driven by workers that @amazon claims are not its own employees. Did I understand this correctly? Like “you’re not our employee (so no min wage, organizing, UI, paid sick rights) but we’ll watch your every move?” https://t.co/JSZoLZvzsi
— Terri Gerstein (@TerriGerstein) February 4, 2021
NEW: Amazon is quietly forcing warehouse workers across the country into a brutal 10-year graveyard shift, known as "megacycle."
— Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) February 4, 2021
I wrote an explainer about "megacycle" and how its upending Amazon workers lives nationwide. https://t.co/YWwNMahYmM
Is Amazon really just one of those psychological experiments from the 1970s? https://t.co/uMpsmtM5KR
— April Wolfe (@AWolfeful) February 4, 2021
I spent a summer working 6 hour graveyard shifts in college as building security, sitting behind a desk, and I was destroyed and exhausted after each shift. I cannot IMAGINE doing 10, let alone with hard manual labor https://t.co/n2VI3QnUpq
— RIP Cado (@a_cado_appears) February 4, 2021
It is absolutely unconscionable how Amazon treats its workers. https://t.co/7yBa5wUKgn
— Selena (@selenalarson) February 4, 2021
New: Amazon has been quietly transitioning warehouse workers to a so-called "megacycle" shift that starts at around 1AM and ends at lunchtime. Some workers told: take the 10.5 hour shift, which is not practical for mothers, other workers, etc, or lose job https://t.co/W3OhSdyGhB pic.twitter.com/ZftXnxRHe2
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 4, 2021
Amazon is now using AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans to track drivers. The cameras can detect when drivers yawn or if they're not wearing a seatbelt. Drivers call the tech "unnerving" and "a punishment system." Great scoop by @annierpalmer https://t.co/KNq6cFk8QT
— Dara Kerr (@darakerr) February 4, 2021
This is just a cornucopia of fucked up tech shit colliding
— Kim Crayton [She/Her] ? ??#causeascene (@KimCrayton1) February 3, 2021
Violates all 4 Guiding Principles https://t.co/JFvqSQsZWa pic.twitter.com/of2z5UztNN
"On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job." https://t.co/2Iztm8bwdL
— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) February 4, 2021
Maybe Amazon using AI cameras to track drivers has some unique spin, but not vastly different than UPS tracking. Safety, liability, productivity means tracking. https://t.co/Xxft2rInZK UPS from back in the day https://t.co/KVxNQ5erdg and now: https://t.co/dESymMlm8A
— Larry Dignan (@ldignan) February 4, 2021
New: Amazon has launched AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans to track drivers. Cameras can detect if a driver is distracted, yawning or not using a seatbelt.
— Annie Palmer (@annierpalmer) February 4, 2021
Drivers described the cameras as "unnerving," "Big Brother" and a "punishment system."https://t.co/FwaSuhW6NL
"We chose to not have onroad practical training because it was a bottleneck" (internal memo written by a senior manager in the Amazon logistics division, on driver safety https://t.co/mNzPlTzCwr)
— Wolfie Christl (@WolfieChristl) February 4, 2021
So let's fix it with tech, and put video cameras and analytics into delivery vans: https://t.co/6l44UKXcVg
In other Amazon news, @MarkDiStef has a scoop about Amazon's plans to put video cameras, powered by AI, into its delivery vans. The cameras will monitor for speeding, hard braking, other risky behavior. Naturally, there are likely to be privacy concerns. https://t.co/We4VPig7Ni
— Nick Wingfield (@nickwingfield) February 3, 2021
This is a nightmare. I worked swing-shifts in a factory and the week of 12-8s was brutal. Just being mired in a 1-12 with no end in sight, doing a job that's way more intensive than most line production, is cruel. https://t.co/q22kXzmDMz
— Rob Zacny (@RobZacny) February 4, 2021
"On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job."https://t.co/f4fuEv4P8Q
— Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (he/him) (@lorenzofb) February 4, 2021
Workers at one Amazon warehouse were previously offered several different shift options.
— Motherboard (@motherboard) February 4, 2021
Now that it's closing, they're only being offered one at a new facility from 1:20am to 11:50am, called the "megacycle." https://t.co/B22Qw2xT2G
Amazon warehouse workers in Chicago have been moving to unionize and staged a walkout over working conditions.
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) February 4, 2021
Amazon closed the warehouse and offered displaced workers one shift at a nearby facility: from 1 am to lunch, called a "megacycle," or be fired.https://t.co/PJHwbcdiio
With shifts this brutal, Amazon isn't just at work. It's impacting life outside the warehouse because people need to simply recover from working like this https://t.co/W3OhSdyGhB pic.twitter.com/nQ6swB1Jok
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 4, 2021
NEW: Amazon is quietly forcing warehouse workers across the country into a brutal 10-year graveyard shift, known as "megacycle."
— Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) February 4, 2021
I wrote an explainer about "megacycle" and how its upending Amazon workers lives nationwide. https://t.co/YWwNMahYmM
We need a whole new era of support for unions and worker’s right. Companies like Amazon should not be legally allowed to exploit and abuse workers the way they do. https://t.co/kqPFGkbTPO
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) February 4, 2021
Last week, ~350 workers at DCH1, one of the best organized warehouses in the country, in Chicago, learned their warehouse was shutting down. They have less than 2 weeks to decide whether to move to a new warehouse to work "megacycle" or lose their jobs. https://t.co/YWwNMahYmM
— Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) February 4, 2021
Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers Into Brutal ‘Megacycle’ Shifts - VICE https://t.co/8wgbruVrlq
— Tahmoh Penikett (@TahmohPenikett) February 4, 2021
Amazon continues to use and abuse its workers.
— Thomas Nelson (@NelsonforWI) February 4, 2021
These grueling, mandatory “megacycle” shifts are cruel and discriminatory.
Brave Amazon workers are fighting to unionize in Alabama. Jeff Bezos, now worth $190 billion, is trying to stop them. #1u https://t.co/nM6cAp0i33
A great example of how NOT to schedule your overnight workers: Amazon is putting warehouse workers onto a night shift that's diametrically opposed to circadian rhythms. It's weird; another schedule might boost productivity AND job satisfaction.https://t.co/9BnMFgck5E
— Kevin Kulp (@KevinKulp) February 4, 2021
Amazon will use AI-powered cameras to monitor delivery vans and drivers https://t.co/55KpHj3bbM #tech #feedly #amazon #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
— Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner (@Nicochan33) February 4, 2021
Learn out. Amazon Plans AI-Powered Cameras to Monitor Delivery Van Drivers https://t.co/t7bh5U3XvG #tech #digital #data #privacy
— Kohei Kurihara -DataPrivacy for Fighting Covid-19- (@kuriharan) February 4, 2021
Scoop: Amazon is stepping up the surveillance of delivery workers. We can reveal the company is about to deploy new AI-video camera units to its vans which monitor everything workers do and spring to life at the first sign of incident. https://t.co/8eeB03yzOA
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) February 3, 2021
This is terrifying/interesting and will no doubt be justified to the customer base in terms of ensuring swift delivery/quality https://t.co/F16Rsoftyy
— dominicmhinde (@DominicMHinde) February 4, 2021
Oh and today, too! How messed up does your company culture have to be to think this is okay?!https://t.co/38dxEIfGDf
— Charlotte Jee (@charlottejee) February 4, 2021
Amazon、AI搭載カメラで宅配便ドライバーを監視する計画
— Strainer スタートアップ (@strainer_2nd) February 3, 2021
▼AIカメラ利用でスピード違反等の危険な行動にフラグ（音声アラート）を立てる
▼カメラはNetradyne製：https://t.co/qV7cpu4gWbhttps://t.co/Fg659N6zyf
“every Amazon vehicle will now also be an Amazon surveillance camera. And right now there are essentially no laws in place to govern what Amazon can do with all that footage once they collect it.” I told @annierpalmer at CNBC who have more details here https://t.co/ppw4nqfgq7
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) February 4, 2021
How long before the data these cameras capture - and they don’t just point at the drivers - is packaged and sold? https://t.co/NcQTwLUwd9
— Travis Fain (@TravisFain) February 4, 2021
Amazon's plan to install artificial intelligence powered cameras on its fleet of thousands of delivery vehicles amounts to the largest expansion of corporate surveillance in human history. We'll be launching a campaign this week to stop this nightmare. https://t.co/CKRJXng1Tu
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) February 4, 2021
Lex Luthor at it again#StopAmazon ➡️https://t.co/dPF3k5dsg2https://t.co/CKRJXnxCL2
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) February 4, 2021
Amazon is using AI-equipped cameras in delivery vans and some drivers are concerned about privacy https://t.co/lMvtPcfPA2
— CNBC (@CNBC) February 4, 2021
Amazon warehouse workers are being asked to sign up for 10.5-hour 'megacycle' overnight shiftshttps://t.co/F0ko259xdJ via @vice
— Michael Learmonth (@learmonth) February 4, 2021
This is a nightmare. I worked swing-shifts in a factory and the week of 12-8s was brutal. Just being mired in a 1-12 with no end in sight, doing a job that's way more intensive than most line production, is cruel. https://t.co/q22kXzmDMz
— Rob Zacny (@RobZacny) February 4, 2021
"Management informed workers that their warehouse, known as DCH1, would be shut down, and they were being offered a shift that runs from 1:20am to 11:50am, which is known as 'megacycle,' at a new Chicago warehouse." https://t.co/tUOZ73Vdx3 @LaurenKGurley
— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) February 4, 2021
Today in "oh yeah, it can and will get worse" @LaurenKGurley reports that workers at an Amazon warehouse were forced to sign up for "megacycle" graveyard shifts that run from 1:20am to 11:50am – or else be fired. The satanic mills of post-industrialism. https://t.co/hzxhMQ7WHH
— Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) February 4, 2021
Amazon has been quietly transitioning workers at warehouses nationwide to a 10-hour graveyard shift, known as the "megacycle." https://t.co/ZZWrOcKa24
— VICE (@VICE) February 4, 2021
The story was actually first published by @MarkDiStef for @theinformation. It's a great read, check it out here: https://t.co/XG9zpApnk6
— Dara Kerr (@darakerr) February 4, 2021