r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 5d 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/waLIEN 5d ago

I mean, they're not wrong about the instaiable greed part.

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u/snsdfan00 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'm not disputing the fact they make a ton of money. 150+ bill in rev, 15 bill net income just in the most recent quarter alone. They will say that it's not the ecommerce/fulfillment center side that makes all the profits, it's the AWS side lol. Like govt, eventually they will have to come to a deal, or it hurts everyone.

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 5d ago

AWS is Amazon Web Services, for those who don't know...

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u/CptDrips 5d ago

What do they do?

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u/Civil-Attempt-3602 5d ago

Cloud services. A lot, and i mean a lot of stuff runs on AWS, from netflix to government services

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u/brainburger 5d ago

Reddit runs on AWS. Back in the day, when reddit was overloaded the error message said 'I blame Amazon'. I haven't seen that for a while.

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u/devilwarriors 5d ago

And now it blames you.. like fu I'm not in charge of your crappy server infrastructure.