Amazon latest facility in Tijuana, Mexico

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Images showing Amazon’s warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico surrounded by shacks has gone viral. Some say it tells the story of the capitalist structure of its supply chain.

An Amazon warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, with a fresh newly-built face on one side and deteriorating shacks with cardboard roofs on another was shown in a series of images that went viral on social media on September 7.

The images captured by photographer Omar Martines were a stark display of globalisation and capitalism, some users commented. One drew a comparison to an image from the science fiction movie “Idiocracy” that showed characters looking into a dystopian image of shacks surrounding a giant warehouse, just like Amazon. 

Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person. He recently travelled to outer space in a rocket and thanked his employees for making his space trip possible.

The way Amazon sees their expansion across the world, with its latest addition in Tijuana, is to generate jobs in the areas they enter.

“Since our arrival in Mexico, Amazon has created more than 15,000 jobs throughout the country, creating employment opportunities with competitive salaries and benefits for all of our employees. Our wages and benefits strengthen local communities, and these investments help these areas to grow and to build better futures,” Marissa Vano, an Amazon spokesperson said.

Mexico as a replacement to direct China-US trade

“These photos of a new Amazon warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico have been going viral as the "This is capitalism" picture of the year. But there's a lot more going on here than the picture can tell you,” Charmaine Chua, a professor at the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, said in a tweet chain. 

Chua says understanding the Tijuana distribution center’s relation to the larger delivery network is essential to understand how Amazon’s supply chain works.

Images showing Amazon's new warehouse in northern Mexico's Tijuana, captured by photographer Omar Martinez, were widely shared on social media. (Omar Martinez / Instagram/omartineztj)

She says, while the Inland Empire, a source of cheap land and labour, has been the most crucial store for Amazon’s delivery network, it started to change since former US President Donald Trump’s trade war that led to a total increase of about $200 billion in tariffs from China.

“This means direct China-US trade has become too expensive. The solution? Mexico,” Chua said, adding that the Tijuana fulfillment center is not there to serve locals. 

Noting that at the end of former President Barack Obama's term in 2016, NAFTA Section 321 was extended to allow the duty-free import of goods up to $800 in reference to a dissertation by Spencer Potiker, Chua argued that for Amazon, this duty-free clause, set against the increase in China-US tariffs, provides a loophole.  

“They will ship Chinese goods into Mexico, bring them to the Tijuana facility to process and break apart, then truck them in tote-bag sized, sub-$800 bundles to Otay Mesa FC (fulfillment center),” she said. Otay Mesa FC, located in San Diego country, is less than a 25 min drive from the new Tijuana center in Mexico, so goods can be easily disassembled for import.

Notorious work conditions

A 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute in 2018, had found that Amazon’s warehouse openings didn’t always end up with an overall increase in employment in the areas the company expanded, even though warehouse and storage jobs saw an increase.

The company’s pay rates start at $15 an hour at the US warehouses and it takes pride in what it calls competitive health insurance and retirement benefits. Minimum wage in Mexico, paid warehouse workers, meanwhile is $9USD per day.

But subcontracted labor, forced overtime work, and denying severance upon layoffs are some of the issues that Amazon’s warehouses have, Reuters has reported.

The giant company was blamed for the abuse of its employers in other locations too. Working in shifts for more than 10 hours, some of the workers experience homelessness, workplace injuries. Notorious working circumstances that at one point pushed its drivers to urinate in bottles while working.

Source: TRT World

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2 minutes ago, tennisluvrredux said:

employees quarters aa around that building ?

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1 minute ago, tennisluvrredux said:

Images showing Amazon’s warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico surrounded by shacks has gone viral. Some say it tells the story of the capitalist structure of its supply chain.

 

But subcontracted labor, forced overtime work, and denying severance upon layoffs are some of the issues that Amazon’s warehouses have, Reuters has reported.

The giant company was blamed for the abuse of its employers in other locations too. Working in shifts for more than 10 hours, some of the workers experience homelessness, workplace injuries. Notorious working circumstances that at one point pushed its drivers to urinate in bottles while working.

Source: TRT World

Ilanti company aa mana youth egabadi vetti chakiri cheyadaniki kottukuntunnaru ani @veerigaduasking

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1 minute ago, k2s said:

employees quarters aa around that building ?

Yes any doubt aa

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5 minutes ago, k2s said:

employees quarters aa around that building ?

Wfh feeling ravadaniki inti pakkane warehouse..

[Thokkalee]

Ilantivi chesthene, poor areas lo offices pettadaniki evaru munduku raaru… it is bad optics and bad reputation for them as if they are the reason for the poor conditions in that place… 

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24 minutes ago, tennisluvrredux said:

maa inti dhaggara kuda last year open ayyindhi...local ga labor ki full competition nadusthundhi...min pay $15 ki penchindru ikkada all local companies...

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I don't see anything wrong , Amazon is not the reason for the poverty around there . 

Infact Amazon investing there means there will be more oppurtunities for the people around there . 

 

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Adhi western country kabatii they feel some shame and an urge to do something. Indian ki emundhi. Hi tech city pakkane undev construction labor slums with children playing on roads and everyone $hitting on roads.

i see already @Ryzen_renoir the ultra indian proving my point.

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46 minutes ago, Telugodura456 said:

Adhi western country kabatii they feel some shame and an urge to do something. Indian ki emundhi. Hi tech city pakkane undev construction labor slums with children playing on roads and everyone $hitting on roads.

i see already @Ryzen_renoir the ultra indian proving my point.

Emi sesthavu naayana that's the hard reality of poor countries . 

Do yo have a magical wand that will make them dissapear or something ?  

Maree ekkuva cinema choosavu anukunta 

 

 

 

 

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Just now, Ryzen_renoir said:

Emi sesthavu naayana that's the hard reality of poor countries . 

Do yo have a magical wand that will make them dissapear or something ?  

Maree ekkuva cinema choosavu anukunta 

 

 

 

 

slums have nothing to do with poverty - have you seen any slum in vietnam or china or cuba ? even when china was poor

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3 minutes ago, Telugodura456 said:

slums have nothing to do with poverty - have you seen any slum in vietnam or china or cuba ? even when china was poor

THey are everywhere in china but their govt doesn't allow filming in such areas 

The point I am making is slums are a direct result of unaffordable housing in urban areas . The people who encourage slums are hailed as heros of the poor in india . 

Go and look around vijaywada some areas have TDP slums , some areas have congress slums .  

Instead of providing affordable housing for rural migrants our politicians become heros heros by encouraging and protecting slums. 

Ofcourse indian law / system is to be blame for this because it's present everywhere in india