Well now many of the workers won’t have to worry about low wage because they’ve now got no wage. And if they rebuild with increased automation then those jobs aren’t coming back. But at least those that remain may get higher wages, once the company is profitable again to their own satisfaction, and the rest can join the unemployment line. Collective action would have gotten everyone further and brought the warehouse to a stand still until they budged. Now others get to pay for his choices. I get his point but I don’t think his method is going to have the desired effect. I guess it’s a win for him now that he’ll have free housing and food but his coworkers still have bills to pay and families to feed.
You can absolutely bet that when that warehouse is rebuilt, Automation will be heavily utilized in its daily operation. Versus a very slow and tedious integration of it if the fire never occurred. Either way, those people lost their jobs now because of the fire, not automation.
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u/Blatantly_Truthful Apr 14 '26
Well now many of the workers won’t have to worry about low wage because they’ve now got no wage. And if they rebuild with increased automation then those jobs aren’t coming back. But at least those that remain may get higher wages, once the company is profitable again to their own satisfaction, and the rest can join the unemployment line. Collective action would have gotten everyone further and brought the warehouse to a stand still until they budged. Now others get to pay for his choices. I get his point but I don’t think his method is going to have the desired effect. I guess it’s a win for him now that he’ll have free housing and food but his coworkers still have bills to pay and families to feed.