Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day

Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by fao_ on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:15PM (#20444140)

If a company cannot pay it's workers properly then, to be honest, it really shouldn't exist.

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by dmitrygr on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:38PM (#20444382)

The places these warehouses are at usually have low CoL, and $15/hour is GREAT wage there. People line up to get jobs there!

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by icelancer on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:24PM (#20444226)

People keep seeming to apply for jobs at Amazon warehouses making $15-16/hr, so...

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by bad-joke on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:01PM (#20444611)

Hundreds of people applied to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by icelancer on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:32PM (#20445490)

Well, when Amazon warehouses in the United States are not up to code and burn to the ground, killing hundreds, the analogy will be pretty apt.

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by jodrellblank on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:28PM (#20447028)

so ... what?

People keep turning up to work on third world garbage dumps for cents/day earnings, so...

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by marcusverus on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:40PM (#20445016)

Reducing demand for labor to increase wages? What could go wrong?

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by vecter on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:36PM (#20444358)

Define "properly"

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by zaksoup on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:25PM (#20444237)

This so much. All of this analysis is predicated on the idea that Amazon has made this value for its owners through legitimate means and not by underpaying, overworking, and dehumanizing vast swathes of their workforce. It's so bizarre to me that people think it's a reasonable argument to make that "X company couldn't do Y if they payed better" and the response is just a giant shrug and "I guess their workers will have to pee in bottles and get second jobs" and not "X company therefor can't reasonable do Y"

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by fao_ on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @09:21AM (#20449749)

You're getting downvoted but your point is bang on. I don't think people realise how horrible the conditions in Amazon's warehouses are. A year or so ago they hired ambulances to wait outside rather than turning the AC on in the warehouse. They would rather their workers risk death as opposed to paying money to cool them.

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Re:Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day by zaksoup on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:25PM (#20456150)

> They would rather their workers risk death as opposed to paying money to cool them.

Or rather, it’s cheaper to hire EMTs than it is to climate-control fulfillment centers. Frankly, that seems like the strongest indictment of profit-as-sole-motive I’ve heard, but of course the HN thread can’t handle much in the way of criticizing capitalism or FAANG.

Comments spreading FUD that some sort of deep tech attach of google is responsible for all the negative press get upvoted to the top when the simplest explanation is maybe tech isn’t the perfect good thing everybody wants to believe it is?

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