Posted on 11/25/2022 7:26:52 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers are staging strikes and walking out of their jobs on Black Friday, pushing for the company to provide better wages and protect the global environment as it produces strong revenue numbers.
Strikes and walkouts are planned for Friday in more than 30 countries as part of the “Make Amazon Pay” campaign. The countries include the United States, India, Australia, Japan and many in Europe.
The website for the campaign states that real wages are dropping for Amazon workers while the company makes record revenues, including $121 billion in the second quarter of this year.
“But instead of supporting its workers, communities and the planet, Amazon is squeezing every last drop it can,” the website states.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“pushing for the company to provide better wages and protect the global environment”
It’d be fun to give them a choice: you can have higher wages OR Amazon takes steps to protect the global environment. You can’t have both. I wonder which they will choose.
You’re right. And 2023 is going to be ugly in many ways.
What a weird combination of demands.
Fire their butts and bring in a new wave of H1B slaves.
If you aren’t willing to do the job you AGREED to, then you deserve nothing less than instant termination. If your boss is a big fat ****, then quit and find something else (probably not in that order).
Snowflakes deserve no job.
I’m a true believer in the business model of Amazon, and I do most of my shopping there. To me, the idea of driving to a store, wandering around to find what I came for, and then waiting until someone can take my money is just so 20th century.
I go to Amazon, I search, I compare, I buy. They ship it to my door. Even accepting the argument than I might find it cheaper locally doesn’t account for my transportation costs and the value of my time. I really don’t want to spend half a day shopping, and other than garden supplies, groceries and stuff it’s awkward to ship, it’s my first stop.
That said, it was a terrible decision to buy their stock last year! :)
“Black Friday” is an ingenious invention of corporate America, inviting black people to buy at a discount things they would otherwise steal.
oh Man lol
bUT DON’T open the door
Not understanding that revenues and profits aren’t the same is a mistake too many businesses make. My wife ran a business with $100k revenues for 20 years and wonders why she doesn’t have any money. It’s obvious that most “journalists” and almost all employees don’t know it either.
Send in the robots to deal with the Amazon warehouse strikes.
I’m actually thinking about getting in on AMZN.
I don’t understand the gripes with their wages or benefits. My wife has worked in an Amazon warehouse 5 miles from our house for about 4 1/2 years. While she admits the job is physically demanding, she is making $21.15 for a no brainer job and once she walks out the door, the job is done. No worries about having to do extra work from home or answer phone calls or emails. She declines the health insurance because I have a great plan with my job, but she takes the dental and vision and for a very low premium it keeps paying for itself. She also has a 401K with match and stock purchase plan. She also has life insurance and short and long term disability insurance at no cost to her.
She has been working with many of the same people for multiple years and they frequently have potlucks at work and go out after their shifts. She estimates that about half the workforce turns over fairly regularly, but the other half have been there for multiple years.
She may be one of the lucky ones with good local management that makes her warehouse a good place to work, but my son has a friend at another nearby warehouse who feels the same as my wife and we have a relative about 40 miles away working at a 3rd warehouse that also loves the job. I am not sure why so many feel underpaid and overworked - perhaps they are from states with a high percentage of snowflakes!!!
At least this time they can't call it "stagflation".
"Stag" is not gender neutral...
Maybe Amazon can pick up a bunch of former Twitter twits?
According to what I have read Amazon’s profits such as they are come from the sale of digital content. That the digital content is in fact subsidizing the hard goods. I’m not criticizing that. Many companies use more profitable divisions to prop up the less profitable ones. Because they need them both.
It does not take multiple postgraduate degrees in economics to know that there’s no profit involved in delivering $10 items one at a time for no delivery charge. Hell, even if they were charging delivery it wouldn’t be profitable.
Amazon does treat its labor like crap. Works them to death and discards them if they become injured. That said if the people they are treating in this manner feel that climate change is a major demand as employees, then maybe they deserve to get exploited for being stupid.
Tell me, did that agreement include the company treating the warehouse people like s**t?
The democrats are all in on destroying the country.
there’s a stupid question
they applied for and accepted a warehouse position
what do you think manual labor is? a day at the spa?
Amazon is moving towards decoupling their product sales at Amazon.com from AWS. Amazon’s .com product doesn’t make much money. These people protesting think that their work is creating all those massive billons of profit that AWS is generating. Their .com is also unbder assault from lawmakers who represent other .com sales companies that cannot subsidize their profit margins with an AWS. Amazon is presently near low price on most everything, but they are using AWS to keep the product sales competitive. This is changing as the lawmakers push new laws and force AWS to decouple from Amazon.com... once that happens the warehouse workers will see their Amazon stock stop growing.
I place three online orders a week and they all get here.
“ We are about to relive the 70’s as if it’s all new.”
Under no circumstances will I wear bellbottoms
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