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by itsEtai 2897 days ago
Help strikers in Europe by NOT purchasing from Amazon today. Thank you.
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Wouldn't it help them to purchase from Amazon today? If there are lots of orders but no one to fulfill it seems like that would be greater pressure on Amazon.
But I want things.
I have completely stopped using Amazon, with the final nail in the coffin being the stories about how they treat their workers. I think it's just a matter of dependence and most of the stuff I used to get, I can find it elsewhere.
Explain?
Yeah, if everybody stopped shopping there, the strikers would be muuuuch better off...
"Europe" strikes as often as the wind changes.
Which only raises the question, why doesn't the US? Working conditions must be so fantastic here that no-one feels the need to strike.

It can't be that companies have crippled unions so that they can treat wage and working conditions as a one-sided negotiation. Surely not...

How come it doesn't raise the question of "why doesn't Canada?"
1) They do, 2) they have more worker-friendly laws
Like the f*cking rail service in France, where they've been striking 2 days every three day, to protect outdated privileges and political relevance.
Damn right we do. And it's why we don't live in a capitalist dystopia.