BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
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Today.
#Teamsters #TeamTeamsters
#TeamMacKenzieScott
It does not mean "to be enslaved" in its verb form; it doesn't mean they are literal slaves.
Metaphor?
Asking for all the actual slaves in China that make the Nike’s you wear
NO! Using word slave in this context insults real slaves and their suffering and negates basic concept of slavery - inability to change their status
No point in even engaging
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4 weeks paid Annual leave. Receive Social Benefits what on Certified Sick leave.
Nollaig Shona.
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The invoice would put most of your fellow countrymen into Penury. For life. Babies don't cost anything to be born.
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The reality is that people take what they can get, and when what they can get sucks, unionizing can help.
I worked for Comcast for 12 years & when it turned to shit, I quit. Been happy the last 22
They may be voluntary in theory, reality rarely makes them such. The notion picking jobs freely is such an incredibly naive and privileged take.
Your handle
Alone is ridiculous
If you’re unhappy in you job & feel you’re being treated unfairly, you have every right to
1. Find another job you’re happy with
or
2. STFU & get back to work
It’s not that hard
Unions are communist.
living.
If they do, ignore if you can, they're wrong in this case. 💜
There are non-profits that can help, even for your pets.
Deep breath! there are solutions out there👍
Do what you have to do.
smh
Shame on the Teamsters for misleading their members into thinking Cheetoh gives a 💩 about them
Having a pro-labor, pro-union nation benefits all of us.
A minority, iirc, but a sizable one. Making sure those people feel supported is important.
https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-no-endorsement-for-u-s-president/
Nah. Do arson.
But go on and pick the wrong side. I guess.
i am a broke ass college student why would i be okay with prices going up
As a broke college student worker’s rights are critical and affect you more than any other generation
The business charges as much as it can without losing money from it. Until costs start causing losses, costs don't actually affect that at all.
I do genuinely know what I'm talking about :P
Bitch that's not "Respectfully" in the fucking slightest.
And Jeff Bezos (with free returns) is destroying the planet and greatly responsible for the enshittification of products.
https://youtu.be/WG8idKaX9KI
It's a doc on the Red N app about it, too.
The Dems negotiated the shipper’s strike.
I also canceled my Prime membership.
This is completely irrelevant to the workers striking for better rights.
As it is, oh well. Time to order all my Xmas presents on https://Amazon.com.
Support striking workers. Period.
Go figure.
Used to block at ISP level 🌳🌎
This helps rein in some of their power!
Merry Christmas, Brothers & Sisters.
Or it can be to have the strike have the biggest impact by having it happen when they need to get items out.
That's just my theory.
Aka what do you recommend for supporters of fair pay, better working conditions?
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You're good.
Do it now. You’ll feel better.
https://www.costplusdrugs.com/
Good luck Amazon workers!
I have a good feeling this won't earn them any good will.
They could have called the strike any time. Instead they waited until the worst time of the year.
UNION!
UNION!
I want to know how to best support the strike.
More than 20 local Teamsters groups have parted ways with the national organization to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/21/teamsters-local-endorsement-harris
#UnionStrong
#IBEW
My strategy is to use Amazon only as last resort, and it's worked out well -- there's so many other options out there if one can wait just a few days for it to be delivered.
I think it's generational, for better or worse - I'm old enough to remember when ALL packages took a while to deliver.
will that help you a little bit?
so what do they care?
I guess I'm going to follow their lead and not pick sides 🍿
Mr. Potter!
#amazonstrike
Also cancelled my Dermatologist who has Thanksgiving Dinner with Bezos every year since HS in Miami...didn't want to hear how great the SOB is when he allowed our "Democracy Dies in Darkness" on his WaPo banner..
He always tried to impress ppl that he was friendly with Bezos...When everyone in Miami knew him as the asshole he is.
I have messaged Amazon though, in support of workers.
And this helps too...
https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/strike-fundraising
Not only do they exploit their warehouse workers, the company has created so much pollution in the inland empire in California by buying up land building warehouses, bringing in trucks, railroads that people are getting very sick with asthma, & other illnesses.
I thought these were legislated
Bud Light andTarget
Anti-trans people boycotted these companies, resulting in:
Bud Light: Lost a quarter of its sales
Target: Lost more than $13 billion in market cap
Backlash: Target faced backlash for its Pride collection, which included LGBTQ+-positive children's apparel
Those are two different things
As long as he’s at the helm? I could care less. He’s getting exactly what he helped bring about.
Frankly I’d be curious how many teamsters at Amazon also voted for Trump.
And you will suffer more in the long run w/Trump stealing from working people to further enrich his billionaire cabinet and friends.
France and SKorea showed how people power stops dictators or bad policies in their tracks.
You are thinking weeks.
I’m taking a page out of S Korea/France, and all it took was a few days and the govts caved in.
Strikes hurt billionaires in their pocketbooks.
If you are union,you will get paid.
If you’re non union,you can call in sick.If it’s well organized there will be funds available.
If we don’t protest now,you’ll be on welfare anyway.
Read how the French saved their retirement benefits!
My reply was to the person who suggests that “everyone” strike to stick it to the billionaires. Literally everyone.
The time is at the beginning,not when they amassed all resources.
I have lived it.
Only we can stop this, but you do you.
But why do you keep moving the goalposts from your initial premise, that EVERYONE strike? Nice fantasy but not a viable solution to anything. What did the pink-hat women’s marches accomplish? Nothing.
Amazon must face some economic hardship to force them to change.
Sure, I had to pay for shipping. And it took longer. But 2 day free shipping (that isn't really 2 days) isn't worth living in a corrupt plutocracy.
#WholeFoods
#JeffBezos
And again. The workers have the right to demand fair wages regardless of what one asshole did.
Grow the fuck up. Yeah, what he did was fucked, but that doesn't mean the workers should be fucked over.
Bezos is going to have to settle, Christmas won’t be happening for many.
Some day, I hope people will start shopping locally.
Please spread the word: https://youtu.be/p5CBQ319cg8?si=2H7JqO6YzBgc-91t