For those of you who don’t know, this is huge news because these kinds of things typically only get filed after the union advocates determine that there is overwhelming support in that workplace. There are 1500 staff in this warehouse . Alabama is one of the most anti-union states in the country.
Absolute support for these workers.
Keep a fucking eye on this. They will need the all the help they can get and we need to watch to see what they will do. If Alabama of all places gets the first unionized Amazons, we will need to take note.
Most of Europe’s amazon warehouse employees are union i think (don’t hold me to this but I think I’ve heard that)
They really aren’t, there was just a huge expose about how they were hiring ex cia people to function as pinkerton’s in European wearhouses.
My guess is the alabama stuff went public as a direct response to the above expose.
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This is very important. Amazon’s business model is entirely dependent on warehouses, so they can’t just shut it down and move. They can’t deliver to Alabama driving trucks from warehouses in Mississippi or Georgia. So if they decide to shut it down, it will be a scorched earth tactic
IDK I’m kinda worried to they’ll just close it. The Bessemer warehouse is my Amazon warehouse. It’s new, just activated in 2019. Previously they just ran packages from west Georgia. They’ve screwed this area before for business convenience: after the Amazon / FedEx contract fallout they just dropped next day shipping for all of us permanently. They told us it would be back when the Bessemer location opened up but that was clearly a lie.
Fuck Bezos.
Yep.
Something else that comrades need to know/keep in mind: Amazon, and other companies, pick warehouse locations extremely strategically. They don’t just willy-nilly plop one down, or build it based on tax incentives or out of good will to a local fiefdom. The movement of materials is a major part of both cost and schedule for every company, and they spend a lot of money trying to optimize their supply chains. There’s a reason why the Longshoremen and the Teamsters have historically been such strong unions (not just because the ILEW are super radical). All of this is even more true in the era of “just in time”.
This isn’t like a Walmart store where they can just close up shop without missing a beat. Closing down a distribution warehouse has major impacts down the line. Not only do other warehouses (which are staffed at the bare minimum for their projected volume) have to suddenly pick up slack that they weren’t allocated for, everything also takes longer to ship, costs more to ship (because you’re now missing a path in the network), and makes a lot of people unhappy.
Tl;dr is that your warehouse job exists for a an extremely specific, strategic reason for your employer. They can’t just close you down like a retail branch without facing major pain. Use that power!
a big fuck you to all the libs who said the feds should stop sending money to states who voted for trump.
