Amazon workers plan strike between Black Friday and Cyber Monday in major cities around the world

[Dave Hess]

You are a perfect example of "careful what you wish for, you might just get it".

Without unions you, your wife and your children would be slaving away at some factory with zero PPE, zero benefits and zero prospects for the future.

I posted before my dad supported a family of 6 on one paycheck and was an A&P mechanic (union) for Pan Am airline. We were fortunate to have union benefits.

I mentioned this to younger adults recently and they looked at me as if I was crazy.

 

[Gasbuggy]

Amazon doesn't strike me as Union worthy

 

[Trav]

You are a perfect example of "careful what you wish for, you might just get it".

Without unions you, your wife and your children would be slaving away at some factory with zero PPE, zero benefits and zero prospects for the future.

100% true - but too much of a good thing can get addictive, mix in a measure of organized crime, Socialism/Commumism/Progressive lunacy and you have a hell of a serious problem that can send companies into bankruptcy, cause inflation and a host of other things.
Guess who will be there to pick up the broken pieces (it will not be with American workers). JMHO

 

[alarmguy]

As we all know there was no Amazon worker strike but somehow the media made people believe there would be in order to create more clicks and ratings for advertising dollars. It will always amazes me how easily controlled many people are.
But I guess it's something to talk about, even though it's not close to reality yet portrayed in the news media as real.

 

[Rand]

Yeah just like grocery store wage increases, thats why cost is so high. If employees want more pay find higher paying jobs, don't mess things up for old fixed incommers that can't afford higher amazon prices.

that's what the Traditional Grocery store wants you to think. its pure greed and price gouging.

Employee wages up 5%(total) in 4 years thats about 1/4 inflation.
meanwhile groceries up 25%-60% yeah 5$ for a can of biscuits now.. used to be 3 for $5

You do the math.
besides the fact that labor is only a percentage of their costs.
so if labor goes up 5% their costs go up a mere fraction of that.

KFC paying 14.50 an hour to start here. Grocery stores were still starting at $11

 

[Rand]

As we all know there was no Amazon worker strike but somehow the media made people believe there would be in order to create more clicks and ratings for advertising dollars. It will always amazes me how easily controlled many people are.
But I guess it's something to talk about, even though it's not close to reality yet portrayed in the news media as real.

yes 100% there might have been a small strike in europe that got AI'ed to being amazon striking everywhere in the USA.

One junky news article and all of a sudden 50 other news outlets pick it up and repeat it.
I saw it day before posted here, I got told by 2 relatives (wife works at amazon), and then read it here.
Internet is fast becoming 50% fake news that no one checks.

Amazon might be many things but alot you read is spin.

 

[KrisZ]

100% true - but too much of a good thing can get addictive, mix in a measure of organized crime, Socialism/Commumism/Progressive lunacy and you have a hell of a serious problem that can send companies into bankruptcy, cause inflation and a host of other things.
Guess who will be there to pick up the broken pieces (it will not be with American workers). JMHO

Oh for sure. Having 100% of the workforce organized would not be good, just like having 0% of the workforce organized. The two need to co-exist in order to check and balance each side.

 

[Dave Hess]

Oh for sure. Having 100% of the workforce organized would not be good, just like having 0% of the workforce organized. The two need to co-exist in order to check and balance each side.

I work in healthcare and half the employees are part of a union.