But the jobs the company is offering are indicative of how the economy has changed in San Bernardino in the past few decades. The jobs that used to dominate San Bernardino were unionized ones with good benefits, at the Kaiser steel mill, the Santa Fe railroad maintenance yard, and the Norton Air Force Base. As Amazon continues to grow at a rapid clip, more communities are in the same position as San Bernardino—desperate to attract new jobs, even ones that pale in comparison to past opportunities, in the absence of anything else.
Amazon now has facilities, including fulfillment centers, Prime hubs, and sortation centers, in the United States, up from 18 in , according to MWPVL International, a supply-chain and logistics consulting firm. Amazon employed , people in the United States in , and said last year that it planned to add more than , full-time, full-benefit jobs by mid The company is a microcosm of the growing logistics industry, which is booming as more and more people order goods online.
The company is growing even in places where it already has a substantial presence: Although it has eight fulfillment centers near San Bernardino, Amazon recently announced it was adding two more facilities nearby, creating 2, more jobs. A mazon allows visitors to tour one of its warehouses in San Bernardino, and I went late last year to try and understand how distribution centers work.
The warehouse, called ONT2 internally, is a vast complex, where clean concrete floors stretch out in all directions covering the distance of about 16 football fields. Conveyor belts covering several miles whir throughout the facility, moving goods among floors. For local residents, starting work in this facility or one like it can seem like a blessing.
But workers are required to be on their feet all day, and receive scant time for bathroom breaks or lunch. Amazon has been sued in the past by part-time, contract workers. Slightly more desirable than picking is stowing. If they take too long a bathroom break, they get written up. One recent prize was a cookie. Another time, the winner of Power Hour would be entered into a raffle to win a gift card. She was written up for not working enough hours after she went to the emergency room because of her heart problem, she says.
On the other hand, she says, she made enough money at Amazon to buy her first new car. I did talk to one Amazon worker who started as a picker and made his way up to management. David Koneck, now 34 years old, was one of the first workers hired by Amazon when the San Bernardino facility first opened.
At the time, Koneck, who graduated from high school but not from college, was running a company that administered diagnostic tests for high-school students. That job was unstable in the aftermath of recession-era budget cuts, so when Amazon announced it was hiring, he applied right away, attracted by the benefits, such as health insurance and a program that allowed him and his wife to share paid leave when they had their first child. Amazon's fulfillment center network is just one of several ways it has become a growing player in the logistics and shipping industry, taking on the likes of FedEx and UPS.
The company has been ramping up efforts to launch its own delivery network, via growing fleets of airplanes , delivery drones and vans. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment on the company's future warehouse plans, but said it is "constantly exploring new locations and weighing a variety of factors when deciding where to develop future sites. Skip Navigation.
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