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NYC is one of amazon's largest markets, and this is the biggest warehouse in the city. There are 8300 employees in the bargaining group which doesn't include ma
by zjaffee 5y ago
NYC is one of amazon's largest markets, and this is the biggest warehouse in the city. There are 8300 employees in the bargaining group which doesn't include management, engineers who do repair work for the robotics and so on.
They cannot afford to close this shop, and it's obviously playing a big role as to why this location has successfully unionized while the location in Alabama has not.
- morelish 5y agoMay the opposite be the case? If Amazon really wants to prevent unions appearing in their employment relations, doesn't Amazon need to close this down now? I'm not saying that's good. But I'm saying Amazon might think it can't afford to let the employees unionise.
- zjaffee 5y agoIt's a matter of near totally shutting down their operations in NYC or not, a place where Amazon is currently the largest retailer. They might be able to stop gap it by sending all their packages in NYC through UPS/USPS, but it would be a major disruption to their operations.