Amazon recently opened a distribution center in my old home town which made them one of the largest employers in the area overnight. The local leaders rolled over and gave Amazon every concession to get those jobs. I’ve avoided Amazon as much as possible for a long time, but now it is personal because they’ve brought their abusive warehouse jobs to community where I grew up.
Hopefully, if the federal anti-trust suits against Facebook, Google, Et al. go well Amazon will be next on the chopping block.
Instead of a government takeover of the company, I’d prefer to see it broken apart and the retail side of things reorganized from the bottom up as a coop. I think that would be the best possible outcome. There have been some pretty substantial unionization efforts within Amazon, I think that’s an important first step. The PRO Act greatly expands worker rights, and it recently passed the US House again. If the PRO Act passes the Senate it will give workers significantly better chances in their efforts to form strong unions. Then maybe an Amazon union can finally get off the ground.
Amazon recently opened a distribution center in my old home town which made them one of the largest employers in the area overnight. The local leaders rolled over and gave Amazon every concession to get those jobs. I’ve avoided Amazon as much as possible for a long time, but now it is personal because they’ve brought their abusive warehouse jobs to community where I grew up.
Hopefully, if the federal anti-trust suits against Facebook, Google, Et al. go well Amazon will be next on the chopping block.
Instead of a government takeover of the company, I’d prefer to see it broken apart and the retail side of things reorganized from the bottom up as a coop. I think that would be the best possible outcome. There have been some pretty substantial unionization efforts within Amazon, I think that’s an important first step. The PRO Act greatly expands worker rights, and it recently passed the US House again. If the PRO Act passes the Senate it will give workers significantly better chances in their efforts to form strong unions. Then maybe an Amazon union can finally get off the ground.