On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > Not the way I read the article. It's an Amazon warehouse, so the > issues are owned by Amazon. And some of the employees are permanent > employees. Others are temporary (especially around now, when there > is a large demand for seasonal workers). <snip> I stand corrected. I thought that they contracted out warehousing, but another reading indicates that indeed (as the article reads) they don't. That changes the scenario somewhat, although it sounds like the treatment of their workers is less than humane - seasonal contract workers or not. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
