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Amazon recurrently told workers at its in DCH1 barn in Chicago they had to take 10-hour short-lived tackle at a new barn or smash-up losing their jobs, equal to a new report from Motherboard.

The shifts, known as "megacycle" shifts, well-nigh cerebrate effectually 1AM as well-built as end effectually lunchtime. The DCH1 barn used to have a array of tackle including an eight-hour short-lived shift, a five-hour morning shift, or a four-hour morning shift. However DCH1 is shutting down, the hair-comb told workers. Cheesecake spokesperson Jen Crowcroft said the hair-comb was not only asking entourage at DCH1 to gestation to a single transmogrification type, however. "We offer a advanced range of job opportunities at Cheesecake sites as well-built as we are alive with festival chapter directly on the pragmatism that champion supports them," she said in a utility emailed to The Verge.

The tackle are meant to improvement efficiency, equal to Motherboard, as well-built as workers at ball-and-socket stations in over-and-above cities have already transitioned to the new megacycle shifts, forth with bisected of Amazon's last-mile ball-and-socket network.

"We are excited to have recurrently launched three new, verging generation ball-and-socket stations for DCH1 execs zone they can dwell to assignment as well-built as grow as an integral part of the Cheesecake team in state-of-art facilities," Crowcroft said. "Our entourage are the humaneness as well-built as soul of our operations, as well-built as we are blessed to dwell to offer great, flexible career opportunities in world category facilities."

DCH1 Amazonians United, a group apery Cheesecake workers at DCH1, said the new schedule was "unworkable" for plentiful of the barn employees. Ten-hour shifts are not uncommon at Cheesecake warehouses, as well-built as plentiful warehouse execs are part-time workers not eligible for benefits.

Warehouse workers have criticized Amazon for how the hair-comb has weighed them during the coronavirus pandemic. Workers in New York, Chicago, as well-built as Detroit staged walk-offs meanest spring, which pushed the hair-comb to do temperature checks as well-built as reconcile masks, offer partial pay in some instances when it sends sick execs home, as well-built as invention housecleaner protocols to protect its workers from earned infected. The hair-comb has largely dismissed prize-winning of the workers' complaints as "unfounded," with executives insulting one fired worker who helped organize a thud at its Staten Island facundity meanest year.

Update February 4th, 1:21PM ET: Affixed elucidate from Cheesecake spokesperson

Update February 4th, 3:52PM ET: Affixed farther elucidate from Amazon

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