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Help strikers in Europe by NOT purchasing from Amazon today. Thank you.
by itsEtai 8y ago
Help strikers in Europe by NOT purchasing from Amazon today. Thank you.
- ryeguy 8y agoBut I want things.
- middleclick 8y agoI have completely stopped using Amazon, with the final nail in the coffin being the stories about how they treat their workers. I think it's just a matter of dependence and most of the stuff I used to get, I can find it elsewhere.
- XalvinX 8y agoThere's another way to look at the workers situation. They do have jobs, and let me frankly say that in (for instance) Patterson City, California (aka bumf__k egypt, basically) creating thousands of jobs is not nothing...
- saudioger 8y ago"They do have jobs" is a very sad way to justify poor working conditions. Meanwhile Jeff Bezos' fortune is approximately $1,000 per American household.
- XalvinX 8y agoI would agree that Bezos is one greedy motherfucker. No doubt about it.
- cakemuncher 8y agoSlaves "had jobs" as well. Their masters just paid them in food, water, and shelter. This whole thing about businesses "giving jobs" is ludicrous. American brainwashing. Businesses NEED workers. Not the other way around. Humans have always existed and survived for hundreds of thousands of years without "jobs". Businesses cannot survive without workers. Businesses would simply cease to exist without workers. People can still grow their own veggies and meat. Businesses can't generate profits without workers.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> People can still grow their own veggies and meat. Not as an alternative means of even survival-level support if they don't have access to sufficient suitable real estate to do so.
- fifnir 8y agoPeople can still claim their own real-estate ;)
- XalvinX 8y agowhere?
- fifnir 8y agoThat was a tongue-in-cheek comment about revolutions etc
- XalvinX 8y agoBetter be careful. I was just warned about making obvious and non-threatening jokes on this site by the main headquarters themselves. In fact, this is my last comment ever. I'm done with this site and the group of babies that run it. Take care.
- jschwartzi 8y agoIt actually cuts both ways. We workers need the business to exist for the work. The business needs our skills to continue being a business.
- jschwartzi 8y agoAh, the story of the great job creators, who float majestically through the firmament shedding jobs like a fish sheds it's scales.
- XalvinX 8y agoI was only showing the other side of equation... I'm as Libertarian as they come and also believe Karl Marx's theories made tons of sense...(I know that sounds a bit contradictory!) Amazon needs to share its wealth much more, at least among its workers and also independent authors using it, and so on, and realize that it needs to support the ecosystem that allowed it, including things like more freedom and liberty for people, not less. This vast accumulation of wealth is bad news, even for capitalism itself, when you get right down to it. Bezos has a huge chance to make a stellar example to the world here, but so far...ummm...i mean why not?
- kasparsklavins 8y agoExplain?
- highwind 8y agoMaybe this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/16/amazon-prime-day-now-an-opportunity-worker-strikes-consumer-protests-around-world/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/16/amazon-pr...
- mlrtime 8y ago"Europe" strikes as often as the wind changes.
- antonvs 8y agoWhich only raises the question, why doesn't the US? Working conditions must be so fantastic here that no-one feels the need to strike. It can't be that companies have crippled unions so that they can treat wage and working conditions as a one-sided negotiation. Surely not...
- drstewart 8y agoHow come it doesn't raise the question of "why doesn't Canada?"
- RodericDay 8y agowe strike a ton too, especially in quebec just look up province names + strike
- smt88 8y ago1) They do, 2) they have more worker-friendly laws
- AndyMcConachie 8y agoDamn right we do. And it's why we don't live in a capitalist dystopia.
- baud147258 8y agoLike the f*cking rail service in France, where they've been striking 2 days every three day, to protect outdated privileges and political relevance.
- AndyMcConachie 8y agohttps://www.eldiario.es/economia/principales-reivindicaciones-trabajadores-logistico-Amazon_0_793371068.html https://www.eldiario.es/economia/principales-reivindicacione...
- cpuguy83 8y agoWouldn't it help them to purchase from Amazon today? If there are lots of orders but no one to fulfill it seems like that would be greater pressure on Amazon.
- all_blue_chucks 8y agoYeah, if everybody stopped shopping there, the strikers would be muuuuch better off...
- mark_edward 8y agoIt's called a boycott.