I think there's a misunderstanding here. "Strikebreakers" aren't people who beat up strikers to make them go back to work; they're people who are hired to replace the strikers after the strikers are fired en masse. (It's generally illegal to break strikes this way, the company must instead negotiate with the people striking.)

I agree it would be terrible to compel anyone to work through violence.

We're not fine with that, which is why Amazon has significantly increased their pay for the duration of the lockdown. If Instacart hasn't I agree they should.

Wages are largely a function of supply and demand. This downturn favors critical workers because the demand increased faster than the supply can increase, so their wages/perks should go up accordingly, but nothing happens over night.

They seem to be working towards making it happen, by pushing on the supply side. Good for them.

Who is "them" and how are they pushing on the supply side? The supply is only increasing insofar as workers from other industries are able/willing to transition, and even for "menial" jobs such as these, there is surely a fair amount of training that must be done. Moreover, corporations will probably prefer to temporarily increase wages for their current workers rather than take on a glut of novice workers and then do layoffs or wait for attrition afterward, so the supply side seems limited in my view.

> if the organizers took such a stance I honestly think strike-breakers might be resurrected to deal with it.

That'll sell well in an election year with states and the federal government overextending themselves already due to a woefully inadequate initial response. We can't even get masks and ventilators manufactured at the necessary rate, and we're going to send force to assist Amazon Fulfillment? We're not even sending in force to assist first responders and medical practitioners.

Amazon workers have options during this, including just going home. That's Amazon's problem, not the country's. No one is entitled to cheap delivered ecommerce services. If Amazon can't make the economics work without coerced labor, good riddance.

We're absolutely sending in force to assist first responders and medical practitioners. The National Guard has been building overflow facilities across the country, and the Navy's landed in LA and New York with hospital ships.