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1. Main takeaway I: "Q: Do you think this ruling will change anything in the immediate future? A: ... I’m afraid they will not change their policy. ... They
by einpoklum 3y ago
1. Main takeaway I:
"Q: Do you think this ruling will change anything in the immediate future?
A: ... I’m afraid they will not change their policy. ... They’re just smashing everything on their way to making more and more profit."
2. Main takeaway II:
"... Amazon has used Poland as a base from which to attack German unions right next door, either by importing Polish workers as strikebreakers when German warehouses were being picketed or then by simply building warehouses along the German-Polish border to serve the German market and get around German labor laws and unions."
3. Personal suggestion to fellow readers:
Please don't use Amazon, and ask your friends to avoid it as well. Yes, a grass-roots consumer boycott is not the most efficient of measures, but we should at least do _something_ other than just shrug and accept it.
Also, if there is an Amazon facility near where you live - try to figure out if they're trying to unionize. And if they are, try and help them out, or at least donate.
- hinkley 3y agoYou often can’t stop acquaintances from doing things you don’t condone, but you can stop associating with them and being privy or party to their nonsense. I can’t stop Amazon from being assholes, but it says something about me if I still participate, let others participate on my behalf.