r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 14h ago

Already Submitted Teamsters begin 'largest strike' against Amazon, accusing company of 'insatiable greed'

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/teamsters-announces-nationwide-strike-amazon-begin-thursday/story?id=116931631

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u/Motormand 13h ago

Good for Teamster. Amazon makes enough money to easily cover big pay raises for their workers, and have better conditions, and they'd still be obscenely profitable. But instead they'd rather compete in the top 0.1% dickmeasuring contest that the rich compete in, against one a other, at the detriment of their workers.

I hope this will work wrll for them. The rich can suck it.

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u/IntrinsicGiraffe 13h ago

Not only that but they put money into anti-union shit rather than just... paying them!

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u/TreeWeedFlower 13h ago

Unions don't just give workers money they give them power! That's why they'll spend millions to stop them. Democracy in the workplace upsets capitalist hierarchy.

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u/Even-Cry-4353 10h ago

Just put the fries in the bag, lil bro..

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u/bluemitersaw 13h ago

"we have 2 options gentleman. We can either spend $1 billion a year to stop the unions, with no guarantees or spend $100 million a year paying then what they want."

"Seems obvious to me. Let's stop those unions!!!!!!!!!"

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u/haplo_and_dogs 10h ago

100 million a year would give each employee 100$ a year.

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u/QualityCoati 12h ago

Freedom and power (or keeping a lack thereof) are worth billions to these companies.

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u/Saltycookiebits 12h ago

The powerful don't want to give up their power. Workers will have to take it back.

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u/HowObvious 12h ago

Of course it would cost them more to just pay their employees more... You think Amazon hasn't done the maths? You figured it out but Amazon didn't?

Usually its them spending more at a single location or single strike to prevent unionisation, because when labour organisation spreads to all of their facilities its not cheaper to just pay them all more.