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Because that takes years, tons of effort and uncertainty, for a mediocre outcome at best?

User23 3y ago
That and you’ll just be replaced by more amenable immigrant labor. People that are willing to travel around the world potentially risking their lives are going to take that $15 an hour warehouse job in a heartbeat. And it will be a considerably better deal than they’d get back home.
- Geisterde 3y ago
  That sounds like an issue with immigration policy, you could stop this at amazon but it will do nothing for everyone else. Ill also point out that amazon only hires legal labor.
  - User23 3y ago
    Persons who claim asylum can file for a legal work permit 150 days after filing for asylum until their case is adjudicated. Given the backlogs that currently means for years. And of course any children they have in that time are citizens. There are NGOs that help immigrants learn of these rights and exercise them. Amazon themselves even have a program to do so[1]. [1] https://press.aboutamazon.com/2022/3/amazon-launches-employment-support-program-for-refugees https://press.aboutamazon.com/2022/3/amazon-launches-employm...
    - Geisterde 3y ago
      You are right, immigration policy has no bearing in the dramatic rise in asylum requests and how they are honored. If someone from mexico comes to the american border and requests political asylum that makes sense, why are people crossing several countries to come here? Thats not asylum, asylum is escaping a hostile regime.
cute_boi 3y ago
With this logic, we wouldn't even have democracy and freedom.
BadHumans 3y ago
Maybe mediocre for tech workers making 6-7 figure. For someone toiling away in Amazon's warehouse it can only get better. If that wasn't true Amazon wouldn't be offering raises and firing people whenever they heard faint whispers of a union.
- techdmn 3y ago
  "it can only get better" "firing people whenever they heard faint whispers of a union"

That and you’ll just be replaced by more amenable immigrant labor. People that are willing to travel around the world potentially risking their lives are going to take that $15 an hour warehouse job in a heartbeat. And it will be a considerably better deal than they’d get back home.

Geisterde 3y ago
That sounds like an issue with immigration policy, you could stop this at amazon but it will do nothing for everyone else. Ill also point out that amazon only hires legal labor.
- User23 3y ago
  Persons who claim asylum can file for a legal work permit 150 days after filing for asylum until their case is adjudicated. Given the backlogs that currently means for years. And of course any children they have in that time are citizens. There are NGOs that help immigrants learn of these rights and exercise them. Amazon themselves even have a program to do so[1]. [1] https://press.aboutamazon.com/2022/3/amazon-launches-employment-support-program-for-refugees https://press.aboutamazon.com/2022/3/amazon-launches-employm...
  - Geisterde 3y ago
    You are right, immigration policy has no bearing in the dramatic rise in asylum requests and how they are honored. If someone from mexico comes to the american border and requests political asylum that makes sense, why are people crossing several countries to come here? Thats not asylum, asylum is escaping a hostile regime.

cute_boi 3y ago

With this logic, we wouldn't even have democracy and freedom.

BadHumans 3y ago

Maybe mediocre for tech workers making 6-7 figure. For someone toiling away in Amazon's warehouse it can only get better. If that wasn't true Amazon wouldn't be offering raises and firing people whenever they heard faint whispers of a union.

techdmn 3y ago
"it can only get better" "firing people whenever they heard faint whispers of a union"