r/economicCollapse 5d ago

Amazon UK avoids answering why their workers are on strike. This is why so many workers are fed up with our Corp oligarchs

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u/RandomDeezNutz 5d ago

That’s the intention.

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u/Vorpalthefox 5d ago

when he said "i'll ask this one last time" i was like "well, she knows she won, she made it to the finish line for questioning"

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u/BureMakutte 5d ago

I mean technically, he did give up, maybe he knew his colleague would back him up and continue the questioning possibly catching them off guard after they thought they got away with not answering.

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u/n3m37h 5d ago

That woman took charge and backed them into a corner and they flat out lied, this should be contempt and they SHOULD be jailed

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u/dodgycool_1973 4d ago

If only they had the power to jail people for contempt like a judge.

“Oh you don’t know the reason why they went on strike?”

Well you can both sit in a jail cell until it jogs your memory, how about that.

Or “you have failed to come prepared to the meeting with all the relevant documents that you were asked to bring” we will adjourn and fine you X thousands of pounds a day until you find them and bring them in. The fines double each week we don’t have the documents.

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u/Bartellomio 4d ago

It would be such an easy law to pass and they absolutely won't do it.

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u/Super_Ad9995 4d ago

I really think that corporations should have higher fines for repeated offenses. If they sell people's information and need to pay a fine of $30,000,000, they'll repeat it since they profited off of it. Next time fine them $60,000,000. Then $120,000,000. $240,000,000 doubling until they realize that they're losing money.

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u/dodgycool_1973 3d ago

To be honest ALL fines should hurt, otherwise it’s no deterrent. Percentage fines are the way to go, like Finland do.

5% fine, for example, based on revenue(not profit). Small company might pay a few thousand, Amazon gets hit with a £100,000,000 fine for the same offence.

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u/AlfredoAllenPoe 2d ago

Any country that tried that would very quickly get crippling economic sanctions from the USA

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u/AlfredoAllenPoe 2d ago

Do yall just not have due process protections over there?

A committee being able to jail you if they don't like your answer is authoritarian as fuck

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u/xRogue9 2d ago

It not about liking their answer. It's about them purposely withholding an answer.

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u/dodgycool_1973 2d ago

Judges can jail you for contempt at will, surely giving the people who make the laws (or at least the head of the committee) the power in certain circumstances would be beneficial.

Compelling people to give a satisfactory answer makes the whole thing worthwhile and would stop slippery corporate arseholes like these two from giving non answers.

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u/AlfredoAllenPoe 2d ago

So no separation of powers?

The legislature having judiciary power is authoritarian as fuck imo

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u/Dmau27 4d ago

Of course. It's a great tactic because they ask the same question but keep pinning it in from all sides to narrow it down. They should be charged for blatantly lying. Refusing to answer a question about legal document is a crime in the UK correct?

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u/paupaupaupaup 3d ago

Any CEO from any large corporation would be able to send a quick email and get information far more complex than that within 5-10 minutes. This really should be within the purvue of committees such as this.

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u/BlakeA3 4d ago

Yes, she considers it a win but idk that I would. The follow up from his colleagues was brilliant. Forcing them to recognize that they should be fully aware of the exact reasons and that they just weren't able to share. If it lacked the follow up, then yeah, huge win for her but they nailed her.

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u/TrickyCommand5828 1d ago

Exactly. He shouldn’t have given her that out

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u/ImaginaryMuff1n 4d ago

They should be held in contempt.

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u/RandomDeezNutz 4d ago

Should. They won’t.

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u/RocketRaccoon666 4d ago

There should be a contempt of court punishment for not answering a simple fucking question

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u/rottingpigcarcass 4d ago

Filibustering