# Hey kopek got a question about da jungle,..,.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kopek-got-a-question-about-da-jungle/821496 "2018-09-17T21:29:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kopek-got-a-question-about-da-jungle/821496/1 "2018-09-17T21:29:55Z")

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I read this about Amazon today and wondered if it was that bad

> **[I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them |...](https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/17/amazon-warehouse-bernie-sanders)**
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> In some US states, nearly one in three Amazon workers are on food stamps. Sanders would rightly tax companies whose employees require federal benefits

Since ya slave there I figured you could give truth to it or say it was buncha c!rap,…,.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kopek-got-a-question-about-da-jungle/821496/2 "2018-09-18T07:50:17Z")

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They’ve been getting strikes in several European countries ([link](https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577348/amazon-warehouse-worker-strike-europe-prime-day)); in Spain the complaints include several easy-to-prove things which are definitely in breach of basic labor laws. One of them is that, due to the size of the company, there should be a _convenio_ (collective agreement) specific to it: since these have to be published in BOE it’s quite clear that no such agreement exists.  
Note: the article linked mentions “the former collective agreement” but that line was clearly written by someone who doesn’t have the foggiest about Spanish labor law; for starters, in Spain a _convenio_ never refers to workers of a specific union, but of a specific company or sector. The level of wrongness suggests to me that the writer is American, as our _sindicatos_ and your unions are very different animals but the relationship is a lot closer for other English-speaking countries.