Amazon - sited in areas of high unemployment and low economic opportunities - where amazon sites its distribution centres!

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazon-insider-feature-treatment-employees-work When will the government stop the recruitment agencies from promising full time permanent work when taken on as a temp, but then when we start as a temp, that promise just disappears into thin air very quickly? When Mr Cameron - from the party for 'the working people'? 'At the interview – a form-filling, drug- and alcohol-testing, general-checking-you-can-read session at a local employment agency – we're shown a video. The process is explained and a selection of people are interviewed. "Like you, I started as an agency worker over Christmas," says one man in it. "But I quickly got a permanent job and then promoted and now, two years later, I'm an area manager." Amazon will be taking people on permanently after Christmas, we're told, and if you work hard, you can be one of them. In the Swansea/Neath/Port Talbot area, an area still suffering the body blows of Britain's post-industrial decline, these are powerful words, though it all starts to unravel pretty quickly. There are four agencies who have supplied staff to the warehouse, and their reps work from desks on the warehouse floor. Walking from one training session to another, I ask one of them how many permanent employees work in the warehouse but he mishears me and answers another question entirely: "Well, obviously not everyone will be taken on. Just look at the numbers. To be honest, the agencies have to say that just to get people through the door."