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My wife has worked in an Amazon warehouse for almost 4 years and loves it. The work is physical and hard, but she has lost 30 pounds working there and is in the best shape in the 27 years we have known each other. She works with a bunch of her friends who have fun working together and frequently do pot luck lunches (albeit at 4 AM ). She says her bosses treat everyone great and only the weakest workers ever get into any trouble (and eventually get let go). She has nice benefits including 401K and stick purchase plan, makes almost $22.00 an hour for no brainer work so once she walks out the door she has no thoughts about work. She is going to start taking classes on Amazon's dime. She has some flexibility in her schedule dues to the number of unpaid time off she earns. (She also gets paid vacation days and time and a half or double time on holidays). She came home one morning and asked about unions and said someone at her warehouse was trying to organize one --- but all of her friends told the guy to bleep off.

GREAT STORY - we just have one guy here who was a union steward, or something, and thinks that unions are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

All that I see unions good for, at this point, is outsourcing to China, Mexico, and the rest of the world.

Oh, and thank her for me, for getting the super-quick deliveries. I still remember ordering from Sears...took weeks, not the day or two, or even hours (in some cases) that we get with Amazon.

I have a friend who is shop steward for a government employee union in NY. There is a convention going on now. It seems like there has been some speakers getting an earful in the one on one talks. While a speaker was pimping for Hochul a man yelled vote for Zeldin. He got some cheers, where in the past nobody would have spoken out. Interesting.