It will be fascinating to see how this plays back in the US.
I don't expect any effects of this in the US. After all, Amazon had these agreements, treating workers as retail employees, in France for years.
Amazon reaches agreement with trade unions in Italy
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#12can't read the article because of some useless Dell ad
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#13In Germany they are in full throttle marketing campaign how cool it is to work for them.
The anti-Union attemps over here made no friends.
It is all over the place, TV ads, subway, bus stops...
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#14Italian here.
Don't get your hopes up, Italy is a very peculiar place, there are 11.5 million workers that are members of one of the tree major trade unions, not counting smaller ones, it's half of the total work force.
Nothing moves in Italy without an agreement with trade unions when a company the size of Amazon starts hiring en masse.
That's both good and bad, but generally more good than bad.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not uncommon for avowedly anti-union employers to have union contracts outside the US. When Walmart owned the British supermarket ASDA, for example, the GMB union was recognised. Companies seem quite adept at keeping their adaptations to local rules tightly firewalled.
Except for the 'platforms' like Uber, JustEatTakeAway, Deliveroo et al.
They think they can, until they don't.
https://www.expatica.com/nl/uncategorized/uber-loses-dutch-c...
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#16It will be fascinating to see how this plays back in the US.
One of the birth places of unions during the industrial revolution has turned into anti-union, so I don't expect much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)
I think it is still quite up to date regarding work conditions in some places.
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#18In Germany they are in full throttle marketing campaign how cool it is to work for them. The anti-Union attemps over here made no friends. It is all over the place, TV ads, subway, bus stops...
We've had a similar media blitz in the UK, luckily we dealt with most our unions in the 80s.
Despite getting an email from Amazon about twice a week i could never see myself working there.
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#20In Germany they are in full throttle marketing campaign how cool it is to work for them. The anti-Union attemps over here made no friends. It is all over the place, TV ads, subway, bus stops...
We've had a similar media blitz in the UK, luckily we dealt with most our unions in the 80s. Despite getting an email from Amazon about twice a week i could never see myself working there.
Not sure if those people in Manchester felt lucky.