Think Tanks: Obama sides with Amazon against workers

Richard Kirsch for Next New Deal: Amazon’s business model is based on quick, easy buying and low prices. One way it does that is to force its warehouse workers to wait a long time to leave work, without getting paid. And that’s just fine with the Obama administration, which continues to have a blind spot when it comes to decent pay and working conditions at Amazon.

[Early in October] the Supreme Court heard a case (Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk) in which workers are suing the temp firm that [staffs] Amazon warehouses. The workers are in court because they don’t get paid for the time they are forced to stand on line for a security check when they leave work to be sure they haven’t stolen anything. …