Posted on 12/23/2020 1:43:09 PM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew
Why couldn’t Somalis then unionize?
LOL! Jeff will NOT be pleased. To quote a certain idiot: “How dare you!”
How can you effectively organize when half the warehouse speaks Spanish and the other half speaks Somali?
The late Gene Upshaw head of the NFL players union owned a restaurant. Guess what his take on unionization was.
Must be good news.
LOL that’s no joke.
There’s a chicken plant in SW Missouri near my SIL’s house where the Mexicans displaced the hilljacks, then the Somalis displaced the Mexicans.
So you have this little town in the middle of America with the signs in Spanish and Arabic.
Their goal is to have every workforce be made up of ethnic groups that are too small to become a majority and at odds with everyone else.
Have you heard of anyone holding a gun to their heads forcing them to work at Amazon?
Have you heard of anyone holding a gun to their heads forcing them to work at Amazon?
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When Walmart, Kroger or McDonald’s are the only other (just as bad) job choices available for those white-collar workers formerly making 2 to 5 times as much, it’s basically a gun to the head.
Yeah...
Never bought into the idea paying twice as much for my food
made we a really with-it individual.
Amazon makes GM look like pikers and they don't even make anything. Neat trick becoming the richest man in the world and doesn't even manufacture a single thing.
Fear. Not citizens living in strange world.
All of the old staffers are gone. And it was formerly owned and run by a conservative/libertarian. And he had dietary consultants and other benefits for his employees.
Bezos and another bottom feeder took over his company while he was out plugging a book.
Bezos wanted brick and mortars coast to coast for package pickup for Amazon customers. Before he had his delivery vans up and running.
Bye-bye Prime.
Okay, thanks for bringing me up to speed on those issues.
Doesn’t surprise me.
Full story
https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/shelf-life-john-mackey/
Editor’s Note: On June 16, 2017, Whole Foods agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion. This is the exclusive story that led up to that momentous decision for the Austin-based grocery giant.
Monday, April 10, was going to be a big day for John Mackey, but he had no idea how big it would turn out to be. The co-founder, CEO, and spirit animal of Austin-based Whole Foods Market was flying to New York to launch a tour to promote the publication of his second book, The Whole Foods Diet (summary: Go vegan, or mostly vegan). He was set to lead things off at the Lower Manhattan headquarters of Goldman Sachs, in a gleaming tower overlooking the Hudson River, as part of a speaker series at the powerful investment bank. Mackey was going to follow that event with a signing at a nearby Barnes & Noble, an interview on CBS This Morning, and a handful of other appearances.
As he stepped off the American Airlines flight at JFK (Whole Foods doesn’t own a jet, and Mackey flies coach), his phone lit up with urgent text messages and voice mails. A hedge fund in New York called Jana Partners had snatched up almost 9 percent of Whole Foods’ stock and announced that it would pressure the company to either overhaul its business or sell itself—perhaps to another grocery giant, such as Kroger, or to a less traditional player, such as Amazon. Mackey and other leaders might have to be replaced. A media frenzy ensued, and the PR team who had carefully staged what should have been a traveling celebration of their boss as a thought leader shifted into immediate crisis mode.
“From that moment on, I was drowning in it,” Mackey says, “including when I got to Goldman Sachs. The CEO of Goldman [Lloyd Blankfein] wanted to meet with me because, of course”—he adopts a sardonic tone, a tic that tends to make his handlers stiffen up—“ ‘Goldman Sachs would love to represent you. If you guys are going to be sold, we’d love to make one hundred million dollars doing that. Don’t forget your buddies at Goldman Sachs!’ ” (A spokesperson for Goldman says no such meeting occurred.)
Mackey tells me this story in a modestly sized corner office at Whole Foods headquarters, in downtown Austin, a couple of weeks later. It’s a warm late-April day, and the afternoon sun beats in through the windows, which frame a view of the West Austin hills unfolding gracefully on the horizon with the booming neighborhood that has risen around the Whole Foods mother ship in the foreground. “This used to be my office, but I learned it didn’t have good feng shui,” Mackey says with a slight twinkle in his eye (I can’t tell if he’s being serious).
It’s unbelievable timing, I note, that the Jana news would come out precisely as he was beginning his book tour—so unfortunate, because he presumably didn’t want to be out doing public events while controversy swirled around his company. “The timing was intentional,” Mackey says curtly. He tends to speak softly, and he presents himself like your rumpled, slightly kooky uncle until something snaps him to attention and a take-no-bull streak reveals itself. “They hijacked my book tour. It’s not that I think that they were trying to harm the book tour. It’s just like, ‘Okay, the CEO is going to be distracted. He’s not going to be able to give full attention to this.’ ” (Jana Partners declined to comment for this article.)...
The rest is at the link
And WashPoo Bezos advocates for Leftism while the founder of Whole Foods did not. Unions were trying to get into WF for over a decade.
Bezos talks game but pockets the wealth for himself. And the bonuses and incentives the long term employees had dried up when the entry level salaries at WF were raised.
The few campaign speeches I heard from Biden:
EVERY JOB IN THE USA SHOULD BE UNIONIZED....
RIGHT TO WORK STATES SHOULD NOT EXIST AS SUCH......
It also is a pledge of Biden to end any state ‘s Right To Work laws.
I would bet that those employees were getting food stamps before they got hired at Amazon.
Amazon MIGHT be the first job for many of those who have lived on food stamps.
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