Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. The company believes this makes it easier for different delivery stations to work together. DCH1 Amazonians United January 28, 2021Īn Amazon spokesperson told Motherboard that the transition to megacycle provides a longer window for customers to place orders and an improved warehouse station experience. The DCH1 Amazonians United posted about the issue on Twitter:Ĭan you imagine working 1am-noon, 4 days a week? What time will we sleep and live life?! How do we adjust during our weekends? This change will be nationwide at Delivery Stations-Amazon is setting an example for how other companies can exploit workers with this inhumane shift. Now, DCH1 workers will only have megacycle options at a new facility. Previously, workers at facilities such as DCH1 were offered multiple shift options including an eight-hour overnight shift ending at 4:45 am, a five-hour morning shift, and a four-hour morning shift. The term megacycle is used by managers and workers to describe 10-hour graveyard shifts according to workers.Īn Amazon spokesperson informed Motherboard that more than half of its last-mile delivery network has already transitioned to these new shifts. Megacycle shifts combine shorter shifts into one 10-hour shift beginning around 1:00 a.m. The group added: “In this COVID-19 environment, kids are home and learning virtually and a parent needs to be with them.”Īmazon has begun transitioning workers nationwide into megacycle shifts in recent months. Organized workers at the facility that go by DCH1 Amazonians United told Motherboard: “ is cruel and the antithesis of family-friendly corporate responsibility. The new schedule is unworkable particularly for many mothers, those who care for elderly relatives and others who need to be home in the morning hours.” to 11:50 a.m., known as a “megacycle,” at a new Chicago warehouse.ĭCH1 has previously been the focus of many protest, walkouts, and petitions organized by workers that resulted in Amazon making nationwide policy changes. Workers were told by management that their warehouse known as DCH1 was to be shut down and they were being offered a shift that runs from 1:20 a.m. Vice’s Motherboard reports that last month, hundreds of Amazone warehouse workers in Chicago were told by management they had two choices - sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour overnight shift or lose their job. E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly been transitioning warehouse workers nationwide to a brutal 10-hour overnight shift known as the “megacycle.”
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