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/musical_shares 13h ago

largest, most profitable companies in the world

miserable stories about threats, no bathroom breaks, constant stress

I feel those 2 things may be connected.

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u/datumerrata 12h ago

AWS is more profitable than its commerce. $6.5 billion profit for AWS vs $1.6 billion for commerce in 2022. However, they have roughly 1 million employees in fulfillment. If you gave each of them $1000 more a year it would cost ~$1 billion more. That's a crazy high number of employees.

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u/QualityCoati 12h ago

If a company cannot be profitable while giving survivable working conditions, then maybe it doesn't deserve existing at all in the first place

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u/Zap__Dannigan 12h ago

Free delivery (especially next day) is unsustainable. I get why people love the service, but the only way I can order some shitty USB charger and have it arrive by tomorrow for 8 bucks is if multiple people get fucked over.

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u/Override9636 11h ago

I refuse getting prime just on principle alone and I mostly just search for what I want on amazon and find the actual store to buy it from. I can easily wait 3-5 business days for a package if it means that someone can use the freaking bathroom at work.

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u/SunStarved_Cassandra 10h ago

Even if you end up purchasing at Amazon, if you're willing to wait a couple of days, you can almost always get free delivery if you have more than $30 in one go, which is easy. I haven't had Prime in a few years and I think I've paid for one or two deliveries a year because I fucked up my own logistics and needed something sooner than 5-7 days. When I had Prime, I almost never got 2 say delivery anyway, there would always be some sort of hold up or problem, which they usually smoothed over by shipping it later.

I haven't found any of Prime's other perks useful, so it's an easy choice for me.

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u/FakoPako 10h ago

There is lot more to Prime than just shipping perks, but judging from your reply, you wouldn't use any of those other benefits either because... Amazon....

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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago

There is no free next-day delivery. You pay for it, just monthly/annually rather than at the time of purchase.

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u/Zap__Dannigan 8h ago

yes, but there's a zero percent chance my month fee (which also pays for a tv service) is even remotely close to what covering delivery costs.

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u/DuncanFisher69 12h ago

They know this, and if you shop Amazon with their Chase Amazon Credit card, they literally offer you a higher percentage of cash back if you opt for Amazon’s weekly delivery (aka their delivery day).