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Amazon workers from Spain, Germany and Poland have walked out on strike over demands for better working conditions, choosing to do so on the same date as the retail giant's big promotional push.
Workers demand a fairer conditions[sic] and an increase in salary of 1.5% from Amazon, whose founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' net worth was calculated this week to top $150bn after the company's market valuation hit $888bn.
"The message is clear - while the online giant gets rich, it is saving money on the health of its workers," Germany's Verdi services union said in a statement, following five years in which Amazon has refused to enter into collective wage negotiations over the 16,000 workers employed in the country.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Sunday July 22 2018, @12:19PM (7 children)
Let us note that the average warehouse salary in Lexington county, South Carolina is $32,000. That's pretty good for just moving boxes around. This reminds me of the "bullshit" story. Weasel phrases like "respectable wage" which have no real meaning are a strong indication that your post is bullshit. After all, one can similarly fatuously mealy-mouth about how Bezos's income isn't respectable. But he's not going to do better anywhere else.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @02:07PM (4 children)
Wow. You are delusional, sir.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday July 23 2018, @12:31AM (3 children)
khallow is a slave spouting the propaganda of his betters.
He knows his place.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 23 2018, @12:58AM (2 children)
Freedom can look like slavery to the Orwellians. It's not.
And I find it interesting how all this posturing comes about merely because I noted a standard observation about trade - that it benefits both parties to the trade. Amazon doesn't have some magic woo that forces people to work for peanuts.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @01:03AM (1 child)
You are right, there is no magic woo about it. They command a large amount of jobs and due to how fucked the world is people will take any job they can get. Very few people have the option of holding out, and as someone else said Amazon pushes out a LOT of small businesses. Local economies tank and amazon pays shit wages.
You are a free market droid with apparently no concept of reality outside your narrow world view.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 23 2018, @01:11AM
People will also take better jobs too. What's interesting here is that you're blaming Amazon for what it helps to fix. Employing half a million people with good paying jobs is definitely making the situation better not worse.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @02:22PM (1 child)
What? Are you of all people against people getting paid for their work?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 23 2018, @12:47AM
Why ask questions that have no connection to reality? I never said anything that indicated that I would be against people getting paid for their work. I think what is telling with the story I complained about is that everyone working for Amazon probably saw their wages and benefits go up. Yet we're supposed to be concerned about people not getting paid for their work?