<story><title>Amazon doesn&apos;t &apos;employ&apos; drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv3yp/amazon-says-it-doesnt-employ-drivers-but-records-show-it-hired-firms-to-prevent-them-from-unionizing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unyttigfjelltol</author><text>The solution is to enforce the laws we have, not feign powerlessness every time some crackerjack claims to have identified a profitable loophole.</text></item><item><author>bfeynman</author><text>This behavior of legal loopholes to discount workers should be made illegal. The definition of sub-contractor has got to change and&amp;#x2F;or have laws&amp;#x2F;policies in place that actually make sense in a sub contractor relationship.  These are shell companies that spin up and exclusively deliver for amazon, they aren&amp;#x27;t gig workers delivering when they want, they have strict quotas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themagician</author><text>Often what happens is delay, delay, delay, appeal, delay… and then you are “too big to fail” and everyone has to “think of all the jobs that will be lost”.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon doesn&apos;t &apos;employ&apos; drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv3yp/amazon-says-it-doesnt-employ-drivers-but-records-show-it-hired-firms-to-prevent-them-from-unionizing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unyttigfjelltol</author><text>The solution is to enforce the laws we have, not feign powerlessness every time some crackerjack claims to have identified a profitable loophole.</text></item><item><author>bfeynman</author><text>This behavior of legal loopholes to discount workers should be made illegal. The definition of sub-contractor has got to change and&amp;#x2F;or have laws&amp;#x2F;policies in place that actually make sense in a sub contractor relationship.  These are shell companies that spin up and exclusively deliver for amazon, they aren&amp;#x27;t gig workers delivering when they want, they have strict quotas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dclowd9901</author><text>Absolutely. The courts are supposed to be the last vestige of common sense. It’s judges dropping the ball here by letting high power lawyers steamroll their courtrooms with this nonsense.</text></comment>