<story><title>Workers at Amazon&apos;s main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-italy-strike/workers-at-amazons-main-italian-site-to-hold-first-strike-on-black-friday-idUSKBN1DN1DS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Strikers in US media are often belittled. Think back to the Occupy Movement.&lt;p&gt;The banks were bailed out, none of those people who caused so much misery were ever put in jail, and the media belittled Occupy as being directionless and pointless. The protest was huge, stretching across cities and countries, but there was never any accountability for the banksters. It shows again as the Equifax execs were cleared of insider trading, when they were obviously insider trading.&lt;p&gt;When I was in London a few years ago, there was a massive tube strike. The train drivers were belittled in the media with reports claiming they made over 55k GBP a year, more than many nurses. They neglected to mention the new night train program would have meant long 7 to 14 week night shifts for every tube driver. The city was voted in on night trains, but had no money to fund them. So the blame gets passed all the way down to the tube drivers.</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Now that&amp;#x27;s something I haven&amp;#x27;t heard about in the US for a few decades: strikes.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m partly kidding, but have there been any major strikes in the US lately?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ntrails</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not entirely true.  The strike was over the fact that if not enough drivers _volunteered_ to do the night shifts, TFL could assign non volunteers.  They would still be compensated for the work hours being particularly antisocial.&lt;p&gt;It is also true that Tube drivers are well paid and yes that does impact the levels of sympathy available to them.  The change was absolutely funded - just not as well as the union would like.&lt;p&gt;In essence, however, tube drivers having veto rights over being scheduled to work nights presents an opportunity to cause shortages and disruption without any ramifications or declaration of strike etc.  It was a giant liability for TFL to accept.</text></comment>
<story><title>Workers at Amazon&apos;s main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-italy-strike/workers-at-amazons-main-italian-site-to-hold-first-strike-on-black-friday-idUSKBN1DN1DS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Strikers in US media are often belittled. Think back to the Occupy Movement.&lt;p&gt;The banks were bailed out, none of those people who caused so much misery were ever put in jail, and the media belittled Occupy as being directionless and pointless. The protest was huge, stretching across cities and countries, but there was never any accountability for the banksters. It shows again as the Equifax execs were cleared of insider trading, when they were obviously insider trading.&lt;p&gt;When I was in London a few years ago, there was a massive tube strike. The train drivers were belittled in the media with reports claiming they made over 55k GBP a year, more than many nurses. They neglected to mention the new night train program would have meant long 7 to 14 week night shifts for every tube driver. The city was voted in on night trains, but had no money to fund them. So the blame gets passed all the way down to the tube drivers.</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Now that&amp;#x27;s something I haven&amp;#x27;t heard about in the US for a few decades: strikes.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m partly kidding, but have there been any major strikes in the US lately?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PakG1</author><text>I think the Occupy Movement is a poor comparison because that was a protest, not a strike.  And I don&amp;#x27;t recall protesters in the Occupy Movement being belittled.&lt;p&gt;I agree that labourers may often get unfairly blamed when things go wrong.  Corporate overlords can be also very harsh and unfair.&lt;p&gt;But it is difficult to differentiate between unions that have valid claims and unions that are just riding the gravy train with an iron grip and not adding value.  These are very muddy waters, and truth is often hard to find.</text></comment>