An Amazon warehouse in western Sydney called the police to remove two union officials investigating allegations of workers’ cars being overpacked during its busy Black Friday sales period.
The Transport Workers’ Union sent three officials to Amazon Flex’s Bella Vista parcel pickup facility on Friday, with two of them tasked with going onsite to investigate reports of alleged dangerous overloading of vehicles. They believed workers were being pressured to accept the parcels to avoid disciplinary action or termination.
The union has supplied photos of delivery cars full of Amazon boxes at the site.
Amazon Flex is a gig-economy style delivery service similar to Uber Eats, in that drivers provide their own car to make the deliveries.
The TWU said
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