News Flash! Amazon strikes! FBA delivery time is delayed! Many European countries are preparing to resume work!

Amazon's warehouses are facing an epidemic crisis, with confirmed cases in more than 50 warehouses across the U.S. Amazon has had to use a more expensive and effective thermal imaging system to monitor employees' body temperatures.

However, the workers are not buying into this effort. Recently, hundreds of workers from FBA operation centers across the United States organized a strike movement called "Mass Call Out" and will go on strike this week.

Amazon workers have been protesting since the epidemic worsened and states across the United States declared a state of emergency and suspended all non-essential industries.

Because Amazon is one of the few channels for purchasing supplies during the epidemic, it continues to operate after the outbreak.

Recently, protests by Amazon workers have intensified, leading to this strike movement. The workers' strike threatened Amazon to completely disinfect the FBA operation center, provide more complete epidemic prevention measures and two weeks of paid leave, and close all warehouses with infection risks.

(The picture shows an employee from an Amazon warehouse on strike)

Now more than 300 Amazon employees have signed up to participate in the strike. According to data published on the event registration website, most of the striking employees are from warehouses in the eastern United States.

Currently, the strike website is still calling on more Amazon employees to join the strike. Those who want to participate in the strike can directly fill in the information on the event website to register.

The friction between Amazon and its employees due to the epidemic is intensifying. Before this time, there have been strikes in Amazon warehouses in some places, but they were limited to the location of the warehouses and were small in scale.

Now warehouse workers are the direct factor affecting Amazon FBA's capacity. Whether it is strengthening epidemic control, preventing employee infection, or employee marches and strikes, it will lead to FBA's capacity problems.

After the trade union announced the strike on the 24th, some of our sellers reported in the communication group today that the delivery time of the inventory has been delayed again. The products that were shown to be deliverable at the end of April on Monday have now been postponed to mid-May.

This situation is definitely related to this strike, and if it was just this strike, Amazon would not have taken such a big action. Amazon should have predicted that this strike was just the beginning.

The losses caused by the current shutdown of economic activities have exceeded the US government's forecast. Trump has been encouraging states to resume production and has specifically asked several states where the epidemic is not too severe to resume work before the end of this month.

Amazon made internal adjustments in advance, delaying delivery time by more than half a month to deal with possible strikes and frictions.

The epidemic in the United States is still severe. Amazon is facing the dual problems of surging demand and warehouse strikes. FBA warehousing and delivery have been severely affected, and the resumption date is still hopeless. However, there is some good news from the European site. Amazon recently announced that it may reopen the French FBA warehouse that was previously closed due to a government ban around the 25th.

Source: SellerGrowth