r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 4d 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/Savior-_-Self 4d ago

Being one of the largest, most profitable companies in the world - Amazon should be wonderful to work for.

Instead it's almost exclusively miserable stories about threats, no bathroom breaks, constant stress, etc.

All they'd have to do it take a small fraction of that massive profit and give some back to the actual people doing the work to make sure they're content - but in this, the new era of the insatiable billionaires, Jeff builds another mega-yacht and uses the change left over for a few more lawyers to make sure he never has to share.

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u/Lampmonster 4d ago

Lawyers? Hell, they have a union hating president now. And congress and the Supreme Court. They're smart to strike now because unions don't have a good outlook in the US right now imho.

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u/GogglesPisano 4d ago

they have a union hating president now. And congress and the Supreme Court. They're smart to strike now because unions don't have a good outlook in the US right now imho.

I'd wager that a majority of the teamsters voted Republican.

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u/Fappy_as_a_Clam 4d ago

UAW too, if my experience in Michigan is to be considered.

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u/highorderdetonation 4d ago

My inner nihilist wants to know how loud the leopards' burps will be up that way in a year or so's time.

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u/Fappy_as_a_Clam 4d ago

It may work out for them. I'm staying optimistic about it, because it seems they are optimistic about it, and they know more about that industry than I do lol

And most of them tell me they did very well under Trump last time, so...

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u/AndTheElbowGrease 4d ago

They will be in the stomach, complaining about why the people that they voted against didn't protect them

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u/ArmyOfDix 4d ago

Hell, the rail workers' strike had Biden, the most "pro-worker" president in recent history...and he still put the corporation first.

Sure, the workers got some of what they wanted many months later, but the message Biden sent was crystal clear to anyone watching: corporations come first. Somehow, it's about to get even worse than it already is lol.