Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries

Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by lmilcin on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:04PM (#25232970)

I think this is the right time.

Unions grow when there is disparity between companies exploiting employees. How else can you call companies like Amazon reaping fortunes but absolutely refusing to pay their employees.

I believe companies who earn well should be able to pay their workers enough to be able to afford very basic standard of living where they work.

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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by dalbasal on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:24PM (#25233901)

Another way of thinking of it might be "good times." Industrial unions had their success decades when the sector was growing fast. It's always easier negotiating a growing pie.

Should is a big would, but companies that earn more can pay workers more.

That said... there has to be more to it than "pro union." Where's the goalpost. Say amazon organized... what sort of wage increases can they expect.

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