Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
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Re: Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
#2I wonder what percentage of otherwise very liberal Amazon devs read sentences like "The company for years successfully fought off labor organizing efforts in the U.S." and come away thinking "we're definitely the good guys."
Re: Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
#3They should and should be making no less then $20 an hour to start!
Re: Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
#4See this related article, which suggests that Amazon is dragging down wages for the sector: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-17/amazon-am...
Discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25463000
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#5Along with the unionization at Google, I think it's a good trend to see them happening at big tech companies. As it says in the article: "Unions are a prominent presence at Amazon in Europe, but the company for years successfully fought off labor organizing efforts in the U.S."
It's sad that Amazon, along with FB and Google, etc. have managed to squash unions so completely here in the US. There's a lot of propaganda around unions that helps prevent them from every gaining much power. Obviously Amazon warehouse employees desperately need unionization much more than software devs, but I think both are needed.
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#6I wonder what percentage of otherwise very liberal Amazon devs read sentences like "The company for years successfully fought off labor organizing efforts in the U.S." and come away thinking "we're definitely the good guys."
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#7To be honest I find it much more likely Amazon would just shut down the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, terminate the employment of any workers who joined the union, and open a new warehouse within a 50 mile radius of the current one.
edit: since there are labor law repercussions to terminate the unionized workers, they'd likely just shut down the plant in its entirety.
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#8To be honest I find it much more likely Amazon would just shut down the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, terminate the employment of any workers who joined the union, and open a new warehouse within a 50 mile radius of the current one. edit: since there are labor law repercussions to terminate the unionized workers, they'd likely just shut down the plant in its entirety.
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#9I have to imagine unions have a bit of an uphill battle right now, they took some major black eyes in 2020:
- Police unions openly declaring war on their own citizens
- Teachers unions causing general chaos in school reopening plans
I understand that public sector unions are a different beast, but purely from an optics perspective I have to imagine public sentiment for unions can't be very high right now.
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#10To be honest I find it much more likely Amazon would just shut down the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, terminate the employment of any workers who joined the union, and open a new warehouse within a 50 mile radius of the current one. edit: since there are labor law repercussions to terminate the unionized workers, they'd likely just shut down the plant in its entirety.
And invest (even more) heavily in robotics.