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An Amazon wide union would include hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers, and a much smaller number of tech workers, The Amazon warehouse business and Ama
by pyuser583 5y ago
An Amazon wide union would include hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers, and a much smaller number of tech workers,
The Amazon warehouse business and Amazon Web Services having the same union is … odd.
- zinekeller 5y agoI think they're just analysing the effect of a company-focused union versus a wide-spectrum union. I don't think they're implying that there should be only a single union per company (it's probably not common in the US but that's common in other countries like Germany and pre-Thatcher UK).
- CountSessine 5y agoAmazon Web Services won't have a union because support for unionization among Amazon's developers is low. Amazon will split itself in two before this happens. My prediction - warehouses that unionize will get split off into separate companies and be contracted out to by Amazon.com, the store. But they rely on Amazon.com for so much of their tech that they'll be beholden to them and have no leverage in negotiations. Warehouse workers will be even worse off than they are today.