Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart are trapping workers in poverty: UN poverty expert
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GENEVA (31 October 2023) – A UN poverty expert today called on the CEOs of Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart to address allegations that wages at the US-based corporations are trapping workers in poverty and forcing them to rely on US Government benefits to survive. “I am extremely disturbed that workers in some of the world's most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to afford to eat or pay their rent,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

"I am extremely disturbed that workers in some of the world’s most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to afford to eat or pay their rent,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

“Multi-billion dollar companies should be setting the standard for working conditions and wages, not violating the human rights of their workers by failing to pay them a decent wage,” De Schutter said.

  • samwise@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 year ago

    It’s a feature, not a bug. Keep people impoverished so they’re willing to accept whatever horrifying, exploitative conditions necessary to keep a job.

    Capitalism is the problem.