If an Amazon union is ever formed it is likely to be the closest thing America has to a full-on proletarian party just due to the opposition it would have to endure.
Amazon causing the rise of a newbrand of militant tech savy unionist that have found out how to sideline modern methods of union busting would be beautiful :iww:
In all honesty the IWW does still exist but their organizing was greatly impacted by events before and especially after WWII in which McCarthyism pretty much dismantled any militant organizers sympathetic to socialism. The Teamsters n contrast are a still active and powerful union that can flex it's strength to get the goods when needed.
It’s hard. Constantly building things up from nothing for it to go nowhere and fall apart.
Not to mention it might include hundreds of thousands of workers alone, with how massive Amazon is now.
My god, the sheer number of bombings they would be watching out for…
"The sirens are just a warning". Yes, a warning that there's a fucking tornado coming right now! They don't turn them on just because it's bad whether. They turn them on when the tornado is here!
Tornado watch: conditions which might lead to a tornado are present.
Tornado warning: there is actively a tornado.
It's like they expected it to just be a watch, when they should know full well that it's an active tornado.
Yes, and they've gotten a lot better at issuing warnings now than 20 years ago, so when those sirens go off or your phone says "Warning" it means it's coming, not just that there's one in your county.
"There's a fire alarm going off."
"Yes, that's a warning. You're not actively on fire right?"
"I can see the fire from where I'm standing."
"Okay but you're not actively on fire right? So get back to work!"
did they ever say how many died in the warehouse
no way it was just six
"If you worry about your own safety, you're fired."
When the time comes, no amount of punishment will be enough for the terror these people have caused. I wish these pos will die a horrible death.
Dispatch: We have to wait for word from Amazon on whether my decapitation is a qualified medical emergency.
"When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society [1] places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains. I have now to prove that society in England daily and hourly commits what the working-men's organs, with perfect correctness, characterise as social murder, that it has placed the workers under conditions in which they can neither retain health nor live long; that it undermines the vital force of these workers gradually, little by little, and so hurries them to the grave before their time. I have further to prove that society knows how injurious such conditions are to the health and the life of the workers, and yet does nothing to improve these conditions. That it knows the consequences of its deeds; that its act is, therefore, not mere manslaughter, but murder, I shall have proved, when I cite official documents, reports of Parliament and of the Government, in substantiation of my charge." - Engels, Conditions of the Working Class, Chapter 7 (Results)
That's when you open all the doors to the truck, leave the keys on the seat and just walk away.
