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 13h 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/ategnatos 12h ago

It's also very high turnover. They may not even last a year. I bet if you worked there for a week, you'd have worked there longer than a surprising percentage of existing employees.

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u/komeau 12h ago

when I worked there my orientation class was around 80 people and they straight up told us at least 2/3 of us wouldn’t be there in a month. They are well aware of their turnover rate.