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Amazon and the race to the bottom
As the US government goes after the modern-day retail behemoth via the courts, workers say that their situations are beyond being overworked and grossly underpaid, writes MARK GRUENBERG
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KAREN CRAWFORD, an Amazon worker at its ATL6 warehouse in East Point, Georgia, is “beyond overworked and grossly underpaid.”
She and her daughter sleep on neighbours’ couches. They constantly fear being out on the street with a low-paying job and nowhere to live.
Crawford, an Atlanta native, is not alone at Amazon.
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