Ham Murabi wept, again, this time for Amazon.

[LJ_Reloaded]

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...er-protest-amazon-workers-finally-get-ac?lite

By Martha C. White

Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET: When protesters at Amazon.com's (****) annual meeting blasted the e-commerce giant for subjecting warehouse workers to triple-digit temperatures, company executives were the ones feeling the heat.

CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the company will spend $52 million adding air-conditioning to its network of warehouses, the Seattle Times reported and Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako confirmed via email. (The company did not provide any additional comment.)

Amazon was criticized last year after a local newspaper in Pennsylvania reported how workers at its warehouse there had to endure heat indexes of 110 degrees in the summer months — sometimes for as little as $11 an hour.

"During summer heat waves, Amazon arranged to have paramedics parked in ambulances outside" in anticipation of workers succumbing to the blistering-hot conditions, the Morning Call wrote. On one June day alone, 15 workers collapsed from the heat.

 

[Beco]

Most large warehouses are typically heated, NOT air conditioned/cooled.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

I have never worked in an air condiioned warehouse that did not store food. usually a few large fans to circulate air and keep temps down was it.

 

[Ham Murabi]

From the OP:
"Amazon was criticized last year after a local newspaper in Pennsylvania reported how workers at its warehouse there had to endure heat indexes of 110 degrees in the summer months — sometimes for as little as $11 an hour."


But if we pay them $12 an hour it's all good, right LT?

 

[phrodeau]

Free saunas.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Most large warehouses are typically heated, NOT air conditioned/cooled.

Well, it looks to me like change is in the air.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Phrodeau doesn't care about 110 degree temperatures because his brain is already fried.