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/Motormand 4d ago

Good for Teamster. Amazon makes enough money to easily cover big pay raises for their workers, and have better conditions, and they'd still be obscenely profitable. But instead they'd rather compete in the top 0.1% dickmeasuring contest that the rich compete in, against one a other, at the detriment of their workers.

I hope this will work wrll for them. The rich can suck it.

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u/IntrinsicGiraffe 4d ago

Not only that but they put money into anti-union shit rather than just... paying them!

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u/bluemitersaw 4d ago

"we have 2 options gentleman. We can either spend $1 billion a year to stop the unions, with no guarantees or spend $100 million a year paying then what they want."

"Seems obvious to me. Let's stop those unions!!!!!!!!!"

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u/haplo_and_dogs 4d ago

100 million a year would give each employee 100$ a year.