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The Amazon Delivery Worker Who’d Finally Seen Enough
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Oct. 13, 2020 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | When aspiring engineer Frank Chavez (a pseudonym) took a job delivering packages for Amazon after graduating from college last December and moving back home with his family in Los Angeles, he thought he’d found a short-term gig to help cover the bills. Then the pandemic exploded in southern California, its accompanying recession clouding his future prospects. Soon Amazon’s booming e‑tail empire became his main source of income. Chavez says his job has gotten tougher over the past few months. While he started out delivering about 230 packages per day, making over 100 stops for a local fulfillment center, those numbers have ballooned during the pandemic to “300, 320, 350 packages, with [as many as] 160 stops. So it was a big spike; [the] number of packages and stops just increased.” … In These Times
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