Posted on 05/09/2019 5:42:03 AM PDT by robowombat
Somali Muslims Demand Special Privileges at Amazon MAY 8, 2019 12:00 PM BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
Amazon is about to pay the price for its politics.
Working conditions for Amazon warehouse workers are notoriously miserable with employees urinating in cups and passing out from heatstroke. But while American employees can be abused this way, Somali Muslim migrants have special privileges.
Amazon recruited in Little Mogadishu. It’s going to pay the price.
Three Somali women working for Amazon near Minneapolis have accused the company of creating a hostile environment for Muslim workers and of retaliating against them for protesting their work conditions, according to a filing submitted this week to federal regulators.
In a letter with the filing, Muslim Advocates, a nonprofit legal organization representing the women, asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate what they argue are “systemic violations” of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law prohibits employment discrimination based on religion, among other things.
The issue at stake, as usual, is prayer space and prayer times.
Amazon warehouse workers urinate in cups because they don’t have enough time to use the bathroom and make their quota.
So it’s clearly not discrimination. But the facts don’t matter. They never do.
In 2016, when Amazon opened a major fulfillment center in Shakopee, a suburb of Minneapolis, it recruited heavily from the region’s large immigrant population amid low unemployment. At one point it ran buses to the warehouse from a Minneapolis neighborhood known as Little Mogadishu.
For more than a year, the Awood Center, a nonprofit focused on helping East African workers, has organized the employees around their concerns about the pace of work, accommodations for prayers and what they see as little opportunity for advancement to management. Awood has received funding from grants as well as the Service Employees International Union.
The federal complaint is the latest escalation in an almost yearlong dispute between Amazon and East African workers in the area, which has one of the most organized groups of Amazon warehouse employees in the country.
It’s ironic that Amazon, whose boss owns the pro-Brotherhood Washington Post (this story notably appeared in the New York Times, not the Post) has been caught up in this.
As so many useful infidels have found out, the crocodile may not eat you last.
Amazon gives the workers paid breaks to pray up to 20 minutes, as required by state law, but the employees are still responsible for maintaining the same “rate,” or how many items they must pack in an hour. Ms. Alfred said workers could take longer prayer breaks without pay, for which productivity expectations would be adjusted.
Missing the rate can lead to write-ups and firing. The women said they and other Muslim workers feared taking time to pray, making it a “hostile environment” to be Muslim.
The dead Amazon warehouse workers, none of whom were Somali Muslims, could not be reached for comment about their infidel privilege.
You cannot live alongside these people.
They’re savages and their views are incompatible with those of Western Civilization. They’re nothing like us.
It’s always been true: “You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”
Unless you are Islamic, you are here to serve them. These disputes are part of the overall plan of getting Infidels to submit. Too bad we can’t carve out an exception for them under the law where they are officially considered hostile or second class citizens. Just like Infidels are in Islamic countries.
Unless you are Islamic, you are here to serve them. These disputes are part of the overall plan of getting Infidels to submit. Too bad we can’t carve out an exception for them under the law where they are officially considered hostile or second class citizens. Just like Infidels are in Islamic countries.
Two D-voters enter, no D-voters leave. Conservatives it is now time for Prog Thunderdome
I'm almost with the Muslims on this one. Working conditions at Amazon sound horrible. This means we are getting our merchandise from people with pissy hands because they can't take bathroom breaks. They may be spilling the urine directly on the merchandise. Maybe the Muslims will help change this.
“”employees urinating in cups””
So what I get from the article is I need to wash my hands after opening any package delivered from Amazon?
Amen.
Since 3M’s HQ is in Minneapolis, they caved instantly.
Bottom Line - ROBOTS! - Coming soon to a factory near you!
Like they would use a toilet if they were allowed to. Doubt they even use a cup and just piss where they are.
My employer doesn’t provide me with sufficient breaks to go shopping or run out for a car wash mid-morning, so I guess I should sue someone for a “hostile work environment”.
Unless you are forced to pee in a cup, your attempted witty remark has nothing to do with the situation at Amazon.
If amazon was breaking work laws we’d know about it. Have we heard about it?
Have we’ve seen lawsuits where amazon workers are peeing in cups? I haven’t.
If employees are peeing into cups at their work stations, I'd say Amazon is breaking the law. Maybe we just heard about it in this article. The article makes it sound as if it is a well known practice at Amazon.
Then they should sue. But are they? I reiterate, I haven’t heard about it.
I worked as a front end cashier for Walmart. We weren’t allowed to leave our station for pee breaks. I had shifts where I worked at my station for six hours without a break, pee or otherwise.
If Walmart can employ this practice, why can’t amazon.
Um, their views are perfectly compatible with those who now control Western Civilization. iSlime and liberalism are agreed that they must exterminate 1) Christians and 2) Caucasians.
Christians hold to an Absolute, viz. the Bible. Liberals can't achieve their goals with any who follow an absolute moral compass. Liberals must have people who bow to whatever liberals offer as the cause de jour.
In the 60s it was overpopulation (in order to sneak in legalized abortion). Etc.
Today it's saving refugees. (In order to sneak in assassins and voters; in order to complete the destruction of Western Civilization.)
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