their unionizing is not the problem, and the Amazon Labor Union affects 1 warehouse out of almost 200 around the country. Nothing will go up unless Amazon decides to squeeze us all for more. This is not on the workers. They should have held elections, let new leadership work to negotiate a first contract, independent of any other organized union. But their union President and leadership screwed them, negotiating and signing an agreement with an established union on their way out the door, and now 90% of the voting members ratified it. Forget that only 15% of the union chose to even vote at all.
Amazon is wildly profitable and their model is to enter an industry, lose money until they put everyone else out of business, then they pay whatever they want and control the market. There is nowhere else for the people to work because the retail stores and warehouses all closed or became Amazon facilities. The workers' only leverage is their labor. Which Amazon sees as replaceable, even with rehire rates in excess of 100%.
Life for an Amazon warehouse employee is tough, if you're lucky enough to get full time hours. It's physical, backbreaking work, a demanding schedule and usually far from where the workers live, meaning hours of commute. Tack on eating, sleeping, showering & laundry - not much time to do much else if it's a full time gig.
Welcome to America. Amazon is already one of the largest employers in the US. A company worth almost 2 TRILLION dollars. They have minimal oversight over their hiring practices. I've spoken with current and former warehouse employees. Look in the post. There are plenty of receipts there. This is a long story that I've been covering in detail since 2021, when it was first announced that Chris Smalls was organizing workers at the JFK8 facility in Staten Island.
Of all the unions they could have affiliated with....why the teamsters?
Because the Teamsters are one of 3 or 4 unions big enough to do it, and because they've had a plan for 3 years to unionize Amazon.
Look for the prices to go up. Amazon should have simply treated it's workers better.
their unionizing is not the problem, and the Amazon Labor Union affects 1 warehouse out of almost 200 around the country. Nothing will go up unless Amazon decides to squeeze us all for more. This is not on the workers. They should have held elections, let new leadership work to negotiate a first contract, independent of any other organized union. But their union President and leadership screwed them, negotiating and signing an agreement with an established union on their way out the door, and now 90% of the voting members ratified it. Forget that only 15% of the union chose to even vote at all.
Amazon is wildly profitable and their model is to enter an industry, lose money until they put everyone else out of business, then they pay whatever they want and control the market. There is nowhere else for the people to work because the retail stores and warehouses all closed or became Amazon facilities. The workers' only leverage is their labor. Which Amazon sees as replaceable, even with rehire rates in excess of 100%.
Life for an Amazon warehouse employee is tough, if you're lucky enough to get full time hours. It's physical, backbreaking work, a demanding schedule and usually far from where the workers live, meaning hours of commute. Tack on eating, sleeping, showering & laundry - not much time to do much else if it's a full time gig.
Welcome to America. Amazon is already one of the largest employers in the US. A company worth almost 2 TRILLION dollars. They have minimal oversight over their hiring practices. I've spoken with current and former warehouse employees. Look in the post. There are plenty of receipts there. This is a long story that I've been covering in detail since 2021, when it was first announced that Chris Smalls was organizing workers at the JFK8 facility in Staten Island.