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Re:Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small business... by 93po on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:37AM (#29176691)
>they can just let the union walk out and hire a bunch of different unskilled fungible peons. So it doesn't work for e.g. Amazon warehouse workers

there's no way Amazon could come close to functioning if their warehouse workers unionized and walked out. it would take them years to find enough people to fully staff their warehouses again and it'd cost them billions of dollars

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Re:Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small business... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @10:29PM (#29184150)
They have warehouses all over the country and all over the world. If any of them shut down, they could temporarily send product from the others.

Why would it take years to find more unskilled labor? They could literally park a bus in front of the unemployment office in the morning, load people onto it and be running again by the end of the day.

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