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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by toomuchtodo on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:56PM (#18651864)
You don’t need to be in the majority to effect change. You just need leverage.

Bernie Sanders used publicity and shame to force Amazon to pay fulfillment center workers a higher minimum wage, and he’s only one person (albeit a person with a platform).

So find the leverage. Everyone has pain points.

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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by robrenaud on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:06PM (#18651914)
And they now apparently are paying the high performing workers less.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/03/despite-minimum-wage-incre...

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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by perfmode on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:36PM (#18652111)
A move which is more likely retaliatory than it is about Amazon’s profitability and concerns about going under.
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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by toomuchtodo on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:13PM (#18651951)
Amazon didn’t have to reduce the pay of high performing workers. They chose to. That says more about Amazon than workers attempting to raise their wages.
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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by ddingus on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:24PM (#18652034)
Exactly. All that is on Amazon, not those fighting for a living wage.
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