Amazon Announces New Ohio Fulfillment Center: 1,000 Jobs Coming

[Purveyor]

Associated Press , WKYC 10:51 AM. EDT September 18, 2017

MONROE, Ohio -- Amazon has made it official: It plans to locate one of its fulfillment centers in the southwest Ohio city of Monroe, bringing more than 1,000 jobs.

Ohio recently approved a 1.39 percent, 10-year tax credit for the project, along with a tax credit for a planned fulfillment center near Cleveland that could employ 2,000 people.

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant says the Monroe center will add to more than 6,000 Amazon employees already in Ohio.

It says associates at the 1-million-square-foot (92,900-square-meter) facility will pick, pack and ship larger customer items such as sports equipment, gardening tools and pet food.

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[The empressof all]

1. These are low paying jobs

The fulfillment centers are a tough gig....

[sharedvalues]

2. 1000 crappy jobs. Need unions

Famous mother Jones article on these jobs at Amazon.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor/


Amazing that Americans are upset at liberals instead of the corporate CEOs they should be blaming for crappy jobs. Thanks, Fox News

[JI7]

5. so the unemployed coal miners wont be excited about this ?

[JI7]

3. is it for the Christmas Season ?

[Hoyt]

4. Not career or good jobs for most, but bet it's better than some have now in Ohio.

And I doubt things will change any time soon.

[airmid]

6. These are the only type of jobs we have in this section of Ohio. Though there is an

operating steel mill less than ten minutes away.