Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power
Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power
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Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power
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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.
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Both need to happen for a strike to be effective, and yeah that sucks for people wanting cheap throwaway nonsense.
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"Nice pillow fight, see you next year!"
~ Bezos goes back to counting his money
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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 mean the strike started really close to Christmas, by that point I had already gotten the things I ordered online. If anything the only people this strike would have affected is the last minute people who live near unionized facilities or facilities with good union support.
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?
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.
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.