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posted by martyb on Sunday July 22 2018, @12:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the prime-opportunity dept.

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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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 23 2018, @12:31AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 23 2018, @12:31AM (#710967) Journal

    For the working class, it's a negative sum game.

    No. It's bizarre how we can build this amazing civilization and then have people rant like that without even thinking about how that civilization came to be.

    But the capitalist elites seem to be expanding the pie at an extraordinary rate. Except it's more like an expanding cake, because if you're in the working class, the ever growing economic cake is a lie.

    I grant that the elites are having a great time. That doesn't mean the rest of us aren't doing better too.

    So, let me ask a question. The economic pie is growing wonderfully by the numbers. Why is it that the working class is getting less and less of it, not even in relative terms, but in absolute terms?

    The answer is that you are wrong here. Sure, there are places and people that aren't doing better. But in relative and absolute terms this era is improving for humanity the best it ever has. That includes the working class.