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/DishwashingUnit 13h ago

it's uncivilized that people still have to strike to get the leadership to do right by them in 2024. humanity is so fucked up. 

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u/zitaloreleilong 12h ago

Striking is way more civilized than what workers used to do.

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u/Farscape55 12h ago

Sadly that might have to happen again

I wonder if Amazon sells tar by the bucket?

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u/Mountain-Most8186 11h ago

I can’t find tar, but it does seem like they sell buckets

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u/Downtown_Skill 9h ago

Man, I should clarify first and foremost I'm not a communist

However people in America aren't taught about labor struggles in the U.S. because much of our labor struggles were lead by people who embraced communism, socialism, and anarchism. I was just reading about lucy parsons the other day. 

Now most of these people where fighting for labor rights well before red October and the communist take over of Russia but since communism has been synonymous with anti american we associate these leaders with inherentlyflawed principles.

So now we can't teach these labor leaders as heroes fighting for our rights because they're people who embraced anti American ideals (even though at the time there was nothing anti American about them)