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You genuinely believe that this is a make-or-break line for a multinational with extensive horizontal and vertical integration across multiple industries and it
by swatcoder 4y ago
You genuinely believe that this is a make-or-break line for a multinational with extensive horizontal and vertical integration across multiple industries and it will fold because their warehouse workers demand marginally higher wages and some guaranteed bathroom breaks?
It’s in their interest to fight unionization, but the catastrophizing is just part of that negotiating game. You’re just buying a PR line that they don’t even believe themselves.
As soon as unionization gains a foothold, that same PR will talk up how they have strong relations with workers and that it gives them a competitive advantage in hiring, quality, tenure, and loyalty.
It’s spin today, and spin tomorrow. Don’t take it so seriously, maybe.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoCan't we just short circuit to the last part? If it's going to get there eventually, it makes sense to cut to the chase. Doing the song and dance before hand feels so tedious, boring, and pointless.
- danaris 4y agoThe thing is, it's not a foregone conclusion that we'll get to there. Amazon believes it's in their interests to fight tooth and nail to prevent unions from forming, and historically, it has been able to do so. Of course, there's some pretty good evidence that companies that treat and pay their workers well are more successful than those that try to scrape by treating them like disposable machine parts. But it's not, and has never been, all about the money: a lot of it is about power, and classism, and giving mediocre managers someone they can treat like garbage.