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Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power

inthesetimes.com Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power

Workers describe tens of thousands of packages delayed—and a strong sense of empowerment within warehouses—after Amazon workers with the Teamsters launched the largest strike to date against one of the world's most powerful companies.

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Everything I’m hearing about these strikes is that they are going poorly. Truck driver that tried to pick up a trailer there a couple days ago said there were like 3 people striking. I’m sure in some areas there is strong support but overal it doesn’t look good for the teamsters.
- Just anecdotally there were a lot of Amazon boxes going around at my family's Christmas gathering last night and no one mentioned any problems getting stuff on time.
- I guess their leader shouldn't have decided to cuddle up to Trump.
  
  When strike breaker Harris abandoned the working class, what did you expect, exactly? Workers aren't beholden to party, and since you people will never vote third party, sometimes you have to go with the generic neoliberal instead of the one with marketable aesthetics.
- So the question I have is - are people just scared to strike? Or are the conditions overblown and most workers don’t see it the way it’s reported?
  
  I’d think if it was really that bad then there would be more solidarity and strikes.
  
  I’m not saying it isn’t bad, but I’m trying to piece how bad it actually is if people aren’t willing to strike. I realize there are financial implications to striking, but isn’t that also why dues are paid? Aren’t there funds or things to give them some help/reason to strike?
  
  People don’t strike anymore because they can’t. Wages are so bad and strike funds are so low that people will lose everything if they strike for more than a day or 2. Most strike funds these days pay out a couple dollars an hour your on the line.
  
  Combination of people fearing losing their job due to strike, and the poor conditions being normalized. There’s a lot of that in retail and fulfillment where it’s just treated as normalcy to not have the human rights of a reasonable work environment and access to a restroom whenever needed.
Consoomers are just going to have to be forced to understand that at the expense of getting these 'goods' (albeit cheaply made or whatever), are done by breaking the backs of workers who're forced to do straining jobs to make it so your precious little packages are sent to you.
- You're targeting the wrong people, buddy. The war isn't against fellow wage slaves that need to buy stuff, so save your shots for the CEOs who mistakenly think their shareholders are more important than their workers.
  
  Both need to happen for a strike to be effective, and yeah that sucks for people wanting cheap throwaway nonsense.

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