The Labor Report

K-Dog · Dec 21, 2024, 10:49 AM

Amazon on strike. Will anyone care?

RE · Dec 21, 2024, 10:58 AM

Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 21, 2024, 10:49 AMAmazon on strike. Will anyone care?

Depends how long it goes. Lotsa small biz depends on Amazon to ship them their merchandise. In a week or so inventory will be drained and it should start affecting people directly. When they can't get their toys, they'll pay some attention.

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K-Dog · Dec 21, 2024, 11:36 AM

A strike at one distribution center will not matter. Software will send orders to other distribution centers and the shutdown will hardly be noticed.

There are several hundred distribution centers. I found a list. It is long enough that there could be over a thousand.

I picked one at random and looked at it on a map.

1656 Old Greensboro Rd, Kernersville, NC

That one alone can eat the loss caused by the granola eaters in NY walking around with signs. Jeff Bezos will wait them out.

We live in the society of the spectacle. Freedom is an illusion.

RE · Dec 21, 2024, 01:04 PM

I wasn't aware it was only 1 DC. I thought it was all of them. Unless they have solidarity and all go out together, it's a waste of time.

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K-Dog · Dec 23, 2024, 06:44 PM

Quote from: RE on Dec 21, 2024, 01:04 PMI wasn't aware it was only 1 DC. I thought it was all of them. Unless they have solidarity and all go out together, it's a waste of time.

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I saw coverage of the Amazon strike today and called in to the show which gave an interview with a striker. The situation there was described. The show was two hours long and I saved the part where I called in to the show.

Here it is.