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I thought the whole point was that what's best for them is increased wages, better working conditions and benefits? Granted I live in a country with significan
by EliRivers 6y ago
I thought the whole point was that what's best for them is increased wages, better working conditions and benefits?
Granted I live in a country with significantly stronger worker protections and none of that nonsense in which quitting my job might mean losing healthcare (and in some cases, for my family to as well; that is a messed up employer-holding-my-family-hostage situation that gives an employer breathtaking power over employees), but given how much these precariously employed people seem to get routinely screwed over by their employers who have vast power compared to their employees, how else are they to improve their job? If they think they can do better for themselves without a union, without banding together to get some strength with which to negotiate, what is that alternative that presumably they're planning?
Genuine question. I'm sure it comes across as snark, but from my outside-the-US viewpoint, I don't see any way that these Amazon employees are going to get better wages, conditions and benefits without banding together.