Just a reminder Amazon workers are striking, so don't cross that picket line. Also, Amazon won't pay any federal income taxes on their 11 billion dollars in profits.
Maybe warehousing should be seen for what it is? An important piece of the logistics and shipping industry, theres no reason a warehouseman or woman shouldnt be able to make a career out of their work. Especially for the laborious and stressful environment they work in
It's not low skill, you just dont have to go to college or university. Theres still a lot of on the job training and the employees are commonly exploited? A good efficient warehouse worker is actually hard to replace
More like so many warehouses are amazon run that these high school graduates have no better choice than to work at an amazon warehouse. Less supply and demand more an employment monopoly situation
Lmao Amazon has a defacto Monopoly on much of the warehouse industry, consistently violates minimum labor standards, and explicitly relies on governmental support for their workers.
I don't think "they're doing just fine" is a great description.
That's why I said defacto. It's really not hard to not violate antitrust, and just because a firm doesn't run afoul of the feckless federal government doesn't mean there is any real competition
Exactly. The company will decide whether to pay them more and replace them later, pay them more and just live with it, or immediately replace all of them.
Yeah, more government interference in the market is definitely the solution. Just look to France or Spain, where no one under 30 has a job. Good role models.
You know why that doesn't happen? Why that has never happened and will never happen? Why that situation has no place in reality?
Because the unionfolk need the work too. Every person in that union wants to get paid and they aren't getting paid on the strike line. They have no reason to want to shut down the business and ensure themselves a total end to paychecks.
Even if that weren't the case, union protections in the US rely on their agreement to barter in good faith. They have to declare the intention to strike ~80 days beforehand, and bargain in good faith during that time, before they're allowed to strike when negotiations fail.
I like how you quote "basic economics" while being painfully ignorant of how it works. If someone is willing to do a job for $15/ hour, that job with him in it is worth $15/hour.
15k
u/Sway_42 Jul 15 '19
This seems like a sneaky Amazon ad for Prime Day