Amazon encounters a collective strike! FBA timeliness is delayed

Yesterday we just finished talking about the epidemic crisis facing Amazon warehouses, with confirmed cases in more than 50 warehouses across the U.S. Amazon had to use a more expensive and effective thermal imaging system to monitor the body temperature of employees.

However, the workers are not buying into this effort. Just yesterday, 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, as one of the few channels for purchasing supplies during the epidemic, has remained operational after the outbreak . It may seem normal to us, but when we are really isolated at home, we know how rare it is for food delivery and e-commerce to operate normally. However, Amazon employees don’t think so. “In order to prevent employees from being infected, the company next door has stopped working and rested, and they still get paid. Why should we still work at risk!”

So the recent protests by Amazon workers have intensified, until 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 Amazon warehouse JFK8 on strike and marching to demand the closure of the Amazon warehouse. JFK8 is located in New York, which is one of the Amazon warehouses where confirmed cases have occurred.)

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.

The strike website is currently calling on more Amazon employees to join the strike. Those who want to participate can directly fill in their information on the event website to register. Compared with the previous small-scale protests, this strike is organized and disciplined, and its impact cannot be underestimated.

The friction between Amazon and its employees due to the epidemic is intensifying. Before this time, there have been strikes in some Amazon warehouses, but they were limited to the warehouse location and were small in scale. This is the first time that a strike has occurred in warehouses across the country and involved hundreds of people.

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.

However, in the absence of relief from the epidemic in the United States, returning to work is basically tantamount to giving up treatment. If forced to return to work, it will certainly cause a large number of conflicts between workers and the company, so Amazon quickly made adjustments in advance and postponed the delivery time for more than half a month to deal with possible strikes and frictions.

In general, because the impact of the epidemic is too far-reaching, it is still unknown whether Amazon will be able to restore its normal shipping capacity this month , and there is no guarantee that the situation will not deteriorate further in the future. Therefore, sellers who can ship goods should hurry up to replenish stock of hot-selling products and replenish as much as possible.