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Over 1000 Amazon workers to strike on Black Friday (www.aol.com)

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

1.6 mil workers worldwide.

1.1 mil in the US

1000 workers id guess wouldn't even be missed if they never came back from the Amazon crying booth

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

It's a confirmed 1150 people at a single facility. Definitely a significant number for that facility and surrounding area.

[-] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 10 months ago

Presumably black Friday is a “all hands on deck” day, so a tiny group might make a difference.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Whether it takes 1.2 or 1.202 day to ship an order, does not matter to anyone.

I wish it would make an impact and hope it will but i seriously doubt that it will have consequences for anyone else besides the 1000 who strike.

I strongly believe that unions are important but they need move power than this. More workers need to sign up, and pay membership for the Union to be able to support a full scale strike even with compassion strikes across different branches and services

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

That's total number of employees for the company at large, including dozens of subsidiaries, their various product teams, AWS (which is reportedly in the ballpark of 130k), Prime Video, marketing, and all other departments.

Do you have a breakdown of how many of those are actually factory workers?

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

This. I'd bet if you knew some of the inner workings of Amazon, you could hand select a few dozen employees or positions to go on strike and bring their service to a screeching halt. And the types of people that generally strike, are more likely to be in one of those positions.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

This is actually a great opportunity for everyone to apply to be a seasonal worker at Amazon. Then don't show up and support the protests.

[-] xerazal@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

I work at an AWS data center as a DCO L3. Fully support this strike.

[-] thesprongler@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Support them by not buying anything from Amazon on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or any day if you can help it.

[-] RedditReject@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Like I needed another reason to not buy from Amazon

[+] AnotherAttorney@kbin.social -8 points 10 months ago

Idk man same-day delivery is fucking awesome.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

In a vacuum it might be awesome. But add in the horrible work environment, and it starts to be less appealing. Slavery-lite should not be accepted.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk -4 points 10 months ago

I worked at Amazon. Maybe certain facilities are possibly like this but it’s complete horseshit from lazy ass employees from what I’ve witnessed.

[-] CazzoBuco@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

"Are the work expectations exceedingly high and strenuous?

No, it's the employees that are lazy."

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 10 months ago

I’m saying I worked in it and witnessed everything first hand. Most people that talk shit about it only know what they’ve read in articles and run with it. Like everything else in the world.

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What was it like, and what'd you do?

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 10 months ago

I worked on the transportation team in their early stages. It was fast paced for sure. It has to be though. It was great learning the ins and outs of trucking and getting my CDL all while being able to be a nerd and code/develop while having downtime in the guard shack.

[-] Nevoic@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

"it has to be though". I'm sure Amazon told you that, but what would happen if it wasn't? Would the giant multinational corporation really fail if workers were allowed to take pee breaks universally instead of some having to pee in bottles? Would it really fail if workers had an extra 15 minutes of breaks per day? Would it really fail if workers got another 0.0013% of the profits?

Class warfare is real. If you're happy to just listen to your corporate masters, more power to you, just try not to bring everyone else down with you. Some people enjoy longer breaks, less intense working environments, and better pay. Advocate for and with those workers, and then when the protections are in place go pee in a bottle to save those precious few minutes for Amazon, as long as nobody else has to.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 10 months ago

Is this first hand experience or article reading? None of what you’re saying applied to the record breaking facilities I worked in. Maybe it did elsewhere but all I’m getting across is I worked in two facilities where this shit wasn’t true at all.

[-] Nevoic@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago

Are you claiming all the articles on this topic are hoaxes and the reports about widespread terrible working conditions are overblown because of your one anecdote? If not, what are you claiming?

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 10 months ago

Nothing. Enjoy arguing on the internet about things you only read about.

[-] Nevoic@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I know several people who have worked at Amazon. So I have second hand experience. Maybe you think only workers of Amazon should have opinions on the topic, but that's necessarily elevating anecdotes to a position they have no place being. You need to understand the difference between a single instance of a job and the general statistical tendency of a job.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I have not had same day delivery for months now in a populated city with several Amazon fulfillment centers and Prime. I'm getting ripped off and the moment Invincible ends I'm gone

[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 7 points 10 months ago

How many are employed by Amazon? 1000 doesn't feel like s significant number.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah hoping it grows by 20x before Amazon will think it's a problem.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Fuck yeah do it

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not crossing any picket on Black Friday virtual or not. Hell I did all my Steam shopping on Thanksgiving.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

unfortunate but looks like 1000 new jobs at amazon soon

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