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This is already happening - there is an absolute glut of warehouse robotics companies at this point. Mostly in adding robotics to legacy warehouses. New warehou
by ed312 6y ago
This is already happening - there is an absolute glut of warehouse robotics companies at this point. Mostly in adding robotics to legacy warehouses. New warehouses will almost exclusively be built with automation in mind.
- whatshisface 6y agoThen it sounds like the workers are on the way out even if they don't unionize, so there's not much to lose.
- s1artibartfast 6y agoVery easy position to take if you’re not a warehouse work worker that thinks a union is a difference between you losing your job
- toast0 6y agoAutomation is a cost optimization thing. If the union raises Amazon's costs, it pushes up the automation time frame. And if the union doesn't raise Amazon's costs, it probably didn't provide the workers any benefits. Then the question for workers becomes would you like to have this job for longer with current conditions or for less time with better conditions. I don't think an Amazon warehouse worker union is going to be able to get any sort of long term job availability promises from Amazon (but I could be wrong, of course).