<story><title>Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdvzp/amazon-workers-to-stage-coordinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>It seems that union politics is swinging back. If we choose 1980 as a nominal endpoint for the union pendulum, it feels like 2020-ish may be the other one.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I don&amp;#x27;t know if that&amp;#x27;s a good or bad thing... 40 years is a long time, considering the &amp;quot;pendulum&amp;quot; took a long time getting to 1980. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what from past experience transposes to the present and how. The world is very different.&lt;p&gt;What does an amazon union even look like? How do unions operate legally&amp;#x2F;practically in global firms? What &amp;quot;package&amp;quot; would they want to negotiate for. One union? Many unions? Structure. Strategy. Tactics. Etc.&lt;p&gt;I feel like most discussions fall into generic &amp;quot;for&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;against&amp;quot; union points. Realistically, unionisations is a wide space. Sports league unions. Newspaper Guilds. Germany&amp;#x27;s DGB. America&amp;#x27;s Teamsters. Teachers unions... all very different, and different in different eras.&lt;p&gt;What, besides achieving a union and negotiating power, would an amazon union want to be?</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdvzp/amazon-workers-to-stage-coordinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>x87678r</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Meanwhile, Amazon warehouse workers risked their lives as essential workers, and only briefly received an increase in pay.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This concerns me but I still haven&amp;#x27;t seen any evidence that Amazon warehouse workers are treated differently to any other unskilled manual labor. Is Amazon different because its super successful right now? Or because it uses tech to make people work harder.</text></comment>