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> In Seattle, participating employees will gather outside the Spheres in South Lake Union Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m., organizers said. Not much of a walkout
by nagonago 3y ago
> In Seattle, participating employees will gather outside the Spheres in South Lake Union Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m., organizers said.
Not much of a walkout. That just sounds like lunch break.
- marssaxman 3y agoI work near the spheres (not for Amazon!) and took my own lunch break around 12:20 today. I was hoping to witness the walkout crowd, but did not see anything out of the ordinary.
- Donald 3y agoShows solidarity without threatening anyone’s livelihoods. You can’t get fired for simply taking a lunch break.
- stcroixx 3y agoBut also shows you’re not willing to take any risk for your principles. Probably a strategic error.
- dr_petes 3y agoYou realize this shows the leadership team that there is worker organization. There isn’t a lot of tech unions, so we could see the ball rolling on this which could result in something very powerful.
- powera 3y agoNobody was ever impressed by "industrial action" that starts and finishes during a long lunch break.
- dangus 3y agoI think that this comment is downplaying the power of labor organization and mocking it in a way that is anti-worker and pro-corporation. Maybe this is not a big walkout, maybe it won’t lead to change, but I don’t see the merit in mocking it. We all actually have incredible power over our employers once we get beyond the extremely difficult part that involves organizing and fighting professional anti-organization efforts that corporations employ (along with sympathizers like this that make organizers look like wimpy losers on their lunch break).
- ryandrake 3y agoIf it doesn’t lead to change, what is the purpose? I am sympathetic to their goals, but pragmatically, if a particular action doesn’t get you closer to your goals, why do it? It’s just performance art if it doesn’t have any tangible effect.
- dangus 3y agoEvery organization of every type starts small. They don’t all become large. We could say the same thing about every failed startup company that was a peer to Amazon in the 90s, I guess they were all just performance art corporations. Why even bother getting up in the morning, right?
- ryandrake 3y agoI’m just not a big believer in doing things that don’t work. Even large scale protests rarely achieve meaningful results. Labor walkouts, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, COVID protesters and the truckers, Just Stop Oil, PETA theatrics, the weekly marches on Washington for this cause and that cause: have any of them actually changed anything? When it comes to how companies operate, only shareholders get to vote. I don’t like it, but that’s how it is. Convince shareholders, and they’ll motivate management/leadership. When it comes to government policy changes, convince voters and they will elect people who might implement that change. Protesting and picketing is “doing nothing, loudly.”
- ShroudedNight 3y agoI would expect shareholders to start caring if labour appears organized enough to threaten continued operations of the company.
- mikhael28 3y agoLabor walkouts have changed the lives of millions of people in the 20th century. You have grown spoiled living in the 21st century, and have completely discounted the contributions of generations before you.