45% of Amazon Japan delivery drivers involved in accidents: survey

Simple,

OVERWORKED.

I stopped ordering from Amazon two years ago. I support local businesses. I enjoy talking to sales staff. I don’t mind paying slightly extra for the personal service. I hate trying to coordinate the delivery time with the drivers.

One delivery expected every 2-3 minutes.

Think about that.

If they are driving for 15hours a day and are so overworked it's a recipe for disaster

Around 72 percent said they were assigned 21 to 30 packages for delivery per hour, with most describing the workload as "too much." Some respondents said they had "no time to go to the bathroom" and felt "it is not worth the pay."

Par for the course with Amazon.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse-jobs-worker-conditions-bathroom-breaks

Guaranteed Amazon will go full automation before giving labor living wages and decent working conditions.

the photo pretty much wraps up the current state of japan - a hunched over 80-something guy pushing a cart uphill to make enough to buy dinner.

General Support Union, which set up a division exclusively for self-employed Amazon drivers in January to negotiate higher wages and establish an appropriate limit on the number of deliveries assigned.

Yea, but this isn’t an unbiased survey, is it?

I support the union’s efforts, but the General Support Union desires a high percentage in their own survey as a tool “to negotiate higher wages and establish an appropriate limit on the number of deliveries assigned.”

Oh really? Who’d have thought of that! But you’re not following Amazons line.

they don’t work for Amazon. They are self employed contractors. If you work for Amazon, delivering Amazon goods, getting payed by Amazon, and you can’t decide your own pay (as a self employed business owner) then you’re an Amazon employee. Enough of the gig excuses. We fell for the excuse that unions were bad for us. Now we’ve seen them crushed we actually see that it’s the. CEOs that were bad for us. Not the unions. And it’s not the CEOs who make jobs, it’s the consumers with their hard earned cash that drive the CEOs and start ups to create jobs. CEOs have e crushed our wages for decades, and we fell for it. Price inflation is somehow good but salary inflation is bad. Home inflation great, salary inflation bad. Inflation is good for debt so the government keep telling us. But many never get a pay rise even 0.5.

pver inflation. So let’s take some of those profits,(reduce those CEOs salary, lower share holder dividends (just a touch) and pay your staff a few more dollars. What’s the point of employing 100 poor slaves when you could have 75 better paid staff. I can wait an extra day or so for my delivery Amazon.

during the same time period that ceo pay went up 1,400%, worker pay (who have far more productivity now) went up 13%.

when you keep workers living hand to mouth, barely breaking even working long hours, they don’t have the time or energy to look for another job.

slaves never went away, they’ve just been rebranded as a contractor.

bezos made $7.9 million per hour so far this year.

If you think about it, if Amazon disappeared tomorrow nothing would change. Well, you'd have to go to the shop to purchase the bulb or maybe take a train to buy Christmas lights.

Could they be more grateful to workers and treat them with respect and full time positions? Sure they could, they won't. Corporations these days tend to the opposite, to squeeze workers more so they can make another billion.

It sounds like the union is doing a pathetic job of helping them, (which is par for the course for a Japanese labor union). There is supposedly a chronic labor shortage, so why aren't the drivers organizing and taking bolder action, like strike threats, etc? Not having time to go to the bathroom? I mean, come on, do something rather than complain.

Japan supposedly has a labor shortage. Wonder what's keeping these delivery drivers to their jobs

"45% of Amazon Japan delivery drivers involved in accidents: survey."

Underpaid but overworked that's the cause. But here is the irony, Bezos ex wife, has donated over $ 19 Billions to nonprofits since 2019. While maintaining a net worth above $30 billion due to Amazons stock performance. Aiyahiyahyaa, on one hand they do some good, on the other hand the employees are underpaid and overworked.

TrafficCone’s comment, nice though it is, has little to do with a story about accidents

The number of accidents is due in no small part to the terrible design of Japanese roads. This applies not only to Amazon drivers but to any driver. The article states that many drivers have run into electric poles. Why aren’t these underground? In narrow streets they are dangerous. Japan also needs to update its address system. Delivery drivers would be able to concentrate better on the road if there were street names and house numbers or some kind of distance marker.

What is coming next is the Amazon culture, it's where people won't wait, especially if your a contractor like me, if the phone is not answered in a couple of rings customers move on to the next contractor untill one picks up, sometimes I can call them back after five minutes and they say don't worry I've got it covered now it's so volatile no one can wait, it's been driven by peoples thirst for instant deliveries, and amazon do just that. The next thing is the drastic decline in our high st in shops. They can't compete with online shopping. Amazon has been investigated numerous times in the UK for it's working practices, one is at the end of a 12 hour shift they all have to line up and get searched one there time and not get paid for it, which can add another 30 to 40 minutes at the end of the day, the way to get a decent pay increase is to strike or do a go slow, either way Mr j brazos can afford it, let's not make him any more welthy

So basically they are working like most foreigners. “felt "it is not worth the pay." Then quit. No one is forcing you to work for them.

So basically they are working like most foreigners. “felt "it is not worth the pay." Then quit. No one is forcing you to work for them.

That's not a justification for Amazon treating workers like that.

BertieWoosterToday  11:27 am JST

The number of accidents is due in no small part to the terrible design of Japanese roads. This applies not only to Amazon drivers but to any driver. The article states that many drivers have run into electric poles. Why aren’t these underground? In narrow streets they are dangerous. Japan also needs to update its address system. Delivery drivers would be able to concentrate better on the road if there were street names and house numbers or some kind of distance

Thats a distraction from the real issue which is over work, too many deliveries, and a time rush.

they aren’t underground because they aren’t. And who is the world wants to pay billions of our tax payers money to put all those cables underground which probably cost a fortune to dig up the roads, lay the cables, retarmac the roads , and have even more traffic congestion, not to mention how much harder it is to replace.

interesting that the article appears at this time of year. Are there any records of the santa workers/industrial accident rate? I use delivery buy, foot collect and accept the $delta. Pure commercialism = image if the contemporary age. younger gen desire image, older gen not adequately recognised! kiddywink fancy dress and decorations yeh!, mama baba why is the old git slowing down OUR car? karma is due!

Bertie do you go around smashing into pole. Mate they very easy to see. Street are of normal size and the Japanese have been negotiation these roads for enos and don,t complain. It that you are use to super big roads made for USA made oversize useless machines. And for hitting pole by these workers this is due to  assigned 21 to 30 packages for delivery per hour, not yet width of lanes. This promote speeding and law breaking. This should put squarely on Amazon fault and should assigned delivery to 15 to 20 per hour or less. Amazon is trying squeeze water out a stone when assigning 20 to 30 delivery per hour. If any deaths come from this I assume Amazon will face charges.

Bertie.... engineer langauge. the Fgoles are there to have the electricity above ground with district circuit breakers to allow more rapid reconnections to other districts, when our magical planet decides to Switch off the tv etc and throw your food out of your fridge. However are you suggestimg the poles should be u/g or the power lines. When the planet shakes, eeeek why can I not switch my broadband on? decades of E/Q design, fridge depends upon a/g cables. As for addresses, sure reversed compared to west, nah problem for locals, even I can do it, no estate name but massive s.s. address plate.

koiwaicoffee

Equality. If this was a Japanese owned company it wouldn’t even be news.

Big corps getting away with murder. Amazon bosses should be watching their back because The Insurance boss will not be the last. Will there be a target on Bozo's Back ???

The unfair targeting and tarnishing of Amazon will continue forever as the Japanese competitors, rakuten first, can not compete with them. It is the usual tactics in Japan. If a foreign company or individual becomes to successful in his field he must get pulled down. I got 7 tax revisions for my company in Japan in one year and I have Japanese certified CPA’s. Who are never responsible. Everytime I paid a small or large fine. Who is incompetent when the tax services need 7 revisions of their own work ??