3 ms·
Would you start shopping at Amazon again if they replace all of the workers with robots from Kiva?
by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Would you start shopping at Amazon again if they replace all of the workers with robots from Kiva?
- sdoering 13y agoNice derailing, as this is clearly not the topic of the argument here. The replacing will happen in due time - be it with amazon, be it with every other big warehouse. But that does not allow amazon till then to pay his warehouse-workers way under the trade-agreement, that is binding for this kind of industry in Germany. Amazon says it does not have to pay the trade-agreement-wages from the mail order business, as it is just a logistics company. And that is the whole reason of the strikes. So the union is pushing for strike, to bring amazon in line with the other mail-order-businesses in Germany. So that its workers might one day earn the same amount of money, that every other worker in this industry earns already.
- qq66 13y agoAn intermediate stage would likely be an increase in the percentage of goods drop-shipped from China (I've already received several Amazon items this way in the US)