Re:Bye, Amazon
by jethro_tell on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:23PM
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As I understand it, the 8000 people that signed the petition of support to organize were not hourly workers but corporate white collar workers with high pay that have issues with climate response and worker protections for blue collar workers. Like Tim, the guy who wrote this essay.
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Very interesting. Hard data on all this would be much more valuable than anecdotes and presumption that those with power are always the evil ones.
Corporations are at least some kind of good. Otherwise, we would need to all form our own little businesses, and have everyone redo a whole lot of common tasks. Corporations are the economy's approach to DRY.
> Very interesting. Hard data on all this would be much more valuable than anecdotes and presumption that those with power are always the evil ones.
The signatory names and titles are available publicly: https://medium.com/@amazonemployeesclimatejustice/public-let...
Thanks! It does substantiate the point these are mostly white collar workers complaining about their environment agenda. I saw a single bullet about work conditions, and this was couched in a context about not docking pay if there are big storms that wipe out operations.
Definitely not a corporation mistreating its employees. I don't know why this is portrayed as such. If employees want to force their employer to follow some agenda the employer does not agree with, I don't see a problem with the corporation firing the employees.
What hard data do you need? The petition is public, and the number of people who signed it is as hard as you're going to get!