Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries

Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by akhilcacharya on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:53PM (#25232476)

Unions are not why building things in America is expensive. Its orders of magnitude cheaper to build things in France, a country with extremely strong unions.

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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by kansface on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:41PM (#25232817)

Unions as implemented in the US are absolutely part of the problem. They have an adversarial relationship with management and are frequently (seemingly always) corrupt.

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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by samdamsamma on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:32PM (#25233145)

Wow. Is it opposite day where you’re at, or what?

Corruption in union leadership is defined as cooperating with management instead of cooperating with workers, i.e. the union. That’s literally the problem. And there’s an objective history of why it happens in the US. See: AFL-CIO pact, Taft-Hartley Act, Cold War, McCarthyism, etc.

French workers weren’t necessarily upset with the Soviets after the war. ;)

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