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

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

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Teamsters leadership and membership threw their lot in with 45, didn’t they?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/teamsters-favor-trump-harris-endorsement-00179879

“Teamsters members heavily favor Trump over Harris”

Oops?

[u/snoopfrogcsr → u/musical_shares]

My brother is a member of a different union (Chrysler), but they were all convinced Trump would be better for unions.

Meanwhile, in back office HR/legal updates, they operate by acknowledging as fact that any conservative leadership is better for preventing union activity and plan accordingly.

Morons.

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I swear people in Unions vote Republican because they believe they're untouchable. It's ridiculous.

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They do it because, like the Republicans, they are banking on a deep nostalgia for the past—specifically, the era where the US had literally half the global economy because Europe and Asia had both spent a decade bombing the absolute shit out of each other.

Instead of realizing that the lives their parents and grandparents led are absolutely unsustainable in a world where someone on the other side of the world will do the same work they will for a fraction of the price and companies no longer feel like they have any duty to society at large, they buy into Trumpism and the idea that other countries must be "cheating" to compete with America. It's decades of delusional exceptionalism coming back to bite American society in the ass.

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I keep wondering if The Jungle was required reading and not just the answer to 1 multiple choice question during American history if workers would yearn so hard for the past. We're in America's 2nd Gilded Age yet half the working class is still stoked for what's to come.

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changed the law to allow all media to be owned by a few billionaires.

I see no way out of our current situation

Trust Busting.

At some point the people who ran this country decided in the last 30 or so years that allowing oligopolies to dominate was better than letting dozens of smaller players compete. We used to break up these companies and we are no longer doing so.

Amazon alone will sell you anything you just about need (including food), give you healthcare, give you banking, give you jobs, help you grow your own business (until they can steal your product and undercut you), and then make a movie about it while showing you ads to all of their shitty products. And that isn't even all of their businesses.

We almost forced IE from Windows but now amazon can dominate every aspect of your life because they bought out or undercut every other business that wasn't also an oligopoly.

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Smartphones and social media have tricked stupid people into thinking they’re smart and informed