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I really dislike sensationalized headlines like this. A more accurate one might say: > Amazon's plan to counter pressure from the Teamsters Union focuses on i
by CSMastermind 4y ago
I really dislike sensationalized headlines like this. A more accurate one might say:
> Amazon's plan to counter pressure from the Teamsters Union focuses on investing in non-profits.
For those who didn't read the article:
A leaked Amazon memo shows that the Teamsters Union is effectively putting pressure on Amazon by convincing its members to pressure politicians into not granting Amazon tax breaks, land grants, etc.
Amazon is worried that this represents a real threat to expansion as having local politicians turn against them will almost certainly mean their competitors like UPS (who is friendly with the Teamsters) will outcompete them.
So, Amazon is going to invest in local charities like those for ex-convicts and low-income students. This has two purposes:
1. Give politicians an excuse to give Amazon tax breaks (look at what they invest in the community).
2. Build positive sentiment with local members who will talk to politicians on Amazon's behalf. They'll be especially motivated to if Amazon threatens to pull funding from their non-profits.
- c3534l 4y agoSensationalized? This is disinformation.
- stonogo 4y ago"Disinformation" that uses the exact phrasing from the Amazon document?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYou can absolutely misrepresent what someone is saying by using quotes out of context.
- mechanical_bear 4y agoExcept it is not.
- dave_sullivan 4y agoThey will spend money on literally anything else except wage increases.
- missedthecue 4y agoThey were the first to $15, literally leading a nationwide wage increase for low skill labor, and now they pay closer to $18 by me. For people trying to hate Amazon at any cost, the goalposts keep shifting. If Amazon announced $20 minimum tomorrow, there is no doubt in my mind that people would still be griping. And even when people concede that Amazon pays industry leading wages, it's "whatabout" the urine bottles as if the heavily unionized UPS drivers don't also do this. https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/what-do-you-do-with-your-bottle-at-the-end-of-the-day.373670/ https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/what-do-you-do-w... https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/urine-bottles.360713/ https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/urine-bottles.36... https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/urine-bottles-in-package-cars.356807/ https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/urine-bottles-in... Turns out public bathrooms aren't always available around suburbia, and leaving a truck unattended is a bad idea. I'm not trying to lick boots here or anything, but the constant shitting on Amazon's non-tech business gets really uninteresting. As if it's all generated by a GPT-3 bot.
- hwers 4y agoThat’s because $20 is still humiliatingly low for the workload
- bequanna 4y agoThey do actually require that you work, yes. There are plenty of lower paid jobs for those only interested in being a chair filler. But the pay is quite good for the required skillset.
- rr808 4y agoI'm not sure which planet you are on, but warehouse workers earn way less than $20/hr in most of the US, Europe or anywhere else.
- pera 4y agoWhy do you consider the headline sensationalist? They are using the same language used in their memo: > provide political cover for local policymakers, neutralize organized labors’ attempts to grow their coalition of third-party validators and spokespeople [...]
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- qbasic_forever 4y agoQuotation marks implies they are directly quoting from the leaked memo, i.e. not a sensationalized headline.
- luckylion 4y agoThat's not how quoting works. You can't just quote one word and then put something else behind it. There's a difference between "neutralizing unions" and "neutralizing labor's attempt to ..." It's like the difference between "we need to kill him" and "we need to kill his attempt to pass a law that would..."
- qbasic_forever 4y ago"labor" as a noun is a synonym for union
- luckylion 4y agoYes, the point isn't the word used, but that they want to "neutralize" a campaign's effects not the union. That's just not how quotes work.
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- pera 4y ago> There's a difference between "neutralizing unions" and "neutralizing labor's attempt to ..." The term neutralize as used here (i.e. "to counteract the activity or effect of : make ineffective", Merriam-Webster dictionary) actually make both sentences nearly identical.
- verisimi 4y agoHey, I gave to a charity. Why don't local politicians give me tax breaks?!? Honestly, this sort of idea is such an anathema to the idea of fairness, and an indictment of politics. Be a big enough company, and then you can effectively bribe politicians into giving you money from local tax payers that you can then use to destroy those same local businesses and communities. Genius.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> Hey, I gave to a charity. Why don't local politicians give me tax breaks?!? Aren't charitable donations tax deductible?
- verisimi 4y agoI don't think that amazon is doing that. Nor Elon. They have offshore tax operations AND demand special treatment, subsidies or tax breaks for deigning to operate in some area.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoTax breaks and land grants are giving Amazon a massive advantage over all local businesses. Even if you are against labour right and purely pro-business, how is a local shop suppose to complete? You are just destroying you local businesses in favour of a multinational that pays almost no taxes. I do not understand why this practice is allowed.
- aldebran 4y agoI disagree that it’s sensationalized. The intentions do seem to work towards neutralizing.
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