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How do you lose to Amazon?

RaceBannon
RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,018 Founders Club


Full court press from the Sqwad

Poop bags and urine filled bottles

Losers lose
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  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344



    Full court press from the Sqwad

    Poop bags and urine filled bottles

    Losers lose
    Oregon Ducks always lost the big ones too. Coincidence?
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,007 Standard Supporter
    Probably came down to money. No guarantee of additional pay and a guarantee of monthly union dues. Any strike would not result in Amazon caving on one center and just encouraging other union efforts with a success story. So, go on strike and no pay. Why would you vote for the union based on that premise. My last year in the International Brotherhood of Chemical workers they voted for strike in late August of 1978. Union dudes were laughing and saying it would be nice to have a few weeks off in the summer and then settle for a nice raise. They were out until March of 1979 and settled for an additional five cents an hour. Not a great Christmas for those idiots.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,245 Standard Supporter
    I'm involved in forming a union and my dad was 20 years ago in Suckattle. You're going to get resistance from any private company and it can get dirty. With pub(l)ic entitities and government, less so, but it's still there. Also, vast majority of Dimocrats are corrupt as fuck and don't lift a finger unless you suck them off and give them a lot of favors. Fuck Raul Grijalva!
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,018 Founders Club

    Probably came down to money. No guarantee of additional pay and a guarantee of monthly union dues. Any strike would not result in Amazon caving on one center and just encouraging other union efforts with a success story. So, go on strike and no pay. Why would you vote for the union based on that premise. My last year in the International Brotherhood of Chemical workers they voted for strike in late August of 1978. Union dudes were laughing and saying it would be nice to have a few weeks off in the summer and then settle for a nice raise. They were out until March of 1979 and settled for an additional five cents an hour. Not a great Christmas for those idiots.


    This and are the union bennies better than the company

    Of course on Twitter Amazon cheated and stole the election
  • TheKobeStopper
    TheKobeStopper Member Posts: 5,959
    You can lead a horse to water.
  • RoadTrip
    RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,305 Founders Club



    Full court press from the Sqwad

    Poop bags and urine filled bottles

    Losers lose
    Is it jusr me or are her eyes fucked up?
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,204

    You can lead a horse to water.

    So you're saying the mostly minority workers in Alabama are too stupid to know what's best for them. Figures.
  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,228 Standard Supporter
    I used to be a regular on the team that was trying to negotiate with employees to NOT unionize. We were fortunate because we treated everyone from the plant floor on up the same way. We also had great Christmas parties, 401K contributions, great healthcare package paid for 100% by the company, etc. Every year a few idiots brought up the union and we would explain how all the goodies went away and had to be earned if they voted to unionize and poof, the threat was gone. If you are a shitty company that treats employees poorly, you deserve a union.
  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,878
    I worked at Amazon and there was a Union push in the early days. The fact is that people would rather have the Amazon benefits, stock, etc. Although it's not told in the media, the Amazon employees have a lot of say and influence on how work can be done and I don't think they want to lose that power with having a union as the middle man.

  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    Looks like Amazon handled it fine