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Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:35PM (#30881746)
> maybe Amazon responds with a "business decision" to close JFK8 fulfillment center

Given the current labor market, that union could probably bulk sell its labor to someone else willing to come in and pick up where Amazon left off. This is another, less-mentioned benefit of collective bargaining: it aggregates labor.

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by jfjfkfmf on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:59PM (#30882012)
Why would any company actually want to do this when they could just get non union labor in any of the thousands of right-to-work cities?
Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 01, 2022 @03:01PM (#30882034)
> Why would any company actually want to do this when they could just get non union labor in any of the thousands of right-to-work cities?

Because they can't. Not easily, not certainly.

If you've been given direction to quickly deploy a warehouse, being able to sign a single agreement and know you have your work force is valuable. (The alternative involves creating a hiring pipeline, staffing it, running it and lining all of that up with everything else. If you're a scaling company that's a lot of non-core B.S.)

Put another way, all business is bundling and unbundling. A recently-fired union is a bundle of labor. That isn't valuable to everyone. But it's definitely valuable to at least some labor buyers.

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by whimsicalism on Friday April 01, 2022 @03:02PM (#30882042)
Presumably you still need to fulfill shipping needs in New York because people still buy things there.
Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by gregshap on Friday April 01, 2022 @03:29PM (#30882307)
It’s a last-mile facility for service to NYC.
Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by Spooky23 on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:55PM (#30883221)
It's expensive to do business in those sorts of places.

Alabama lost a Toyota plant to Ontario because literacy is so poor they would need to translate their documentation into Ikea-like pictograms.

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by briandear on Friday April 01, 2022 @05:30PM (#30883510)
That’s false. That decision had to do with currency values not literacy.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/suv-shuffle-mdx-production-m...

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by Spooky23 on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:39PM (#30894205)
That’s Honda.

The Toyota RAV-4 decision was made back in 2005. In don’t think education has improved in Alabama since. Also, IIRC, the higher Canadian wages were partially offset by not having to provide health benefits.

I cite it as I’m somewhat familiar with it as a friend and colleague worked for a supplier pricing out a in-region facility.