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BREAKING NEWS: Amazon workers around the world on strike [2:45 | Nov 24 2023 | Progressive International] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Good. People can wait a few days to get their packages if it means better working conditions.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Also just not buy things from Amazon until the strike is over. Real stores exist!

(I say this as a recluse who buys almost everything online)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Most of the time sellers on Amazon have their own online storefront

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I cannot express how much I love this. Jeff Bezos is an evil piece of dog poo... actually, that is an insult to dog poo.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can say shit on the internet. It’s allowed 😀

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I did say shit, my statement is about shit. ;)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Ok this made me laugh. 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He doesn't run Amazon anymore.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah he's only the single largest shareholder, he has absolutely no influence at all

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 9 months ago

GOOD. Fuck Amazon and their union busting bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh can not wait for Amazon blaming the strike for any and all issues for the next year or so.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

This seems relevant...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Well. There go the Black Friday profits.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Why? People can still order at "discounted" prices, their packages will just arrive a little late.

I'm sure actual profits will not suffer too much.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Gosh darn it!

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It only really works if they keep striking. A one day strike is lame

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Let's hope the striking workers can afford to live without pay before Amazon cave in and pay up!

...Oh wait I forgot it's 2023

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

If they can't live without pay, what they should really do is unionize.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (8 children)

ebay's usps shipping may not be as fast as prime but it's fast enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Yep, they're surely not at all scrupulous but I use them all the time now, and indeed I try to buy from specific sites if possible. Amazon is the devil and they've had enough of my money.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

USPS delivered 8 prime orders in two days today 🤷 are we scabs?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Fuck Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

About damn time!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

not as much as I was hoping for.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Amazon spends obscene amount of money to discourage these strikes. It is a continuous war each year.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Wait, Fucker Carlson made a good point? Broken clock is broken at least once a day I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I haven't kept up much with fucker "punchable face" Carlson but from what I've heard, after being fired from Fox, he has started to backpedal on a lot of things he said and is actively trying to salvage his "journalist" career

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just to play devils advocate; his leaked texts confirmed he never believed some of the stuff he said (which makes him more of an asshole).

I wouldn't be surprised if he was pressured by Murdoch etc. to push certain narratives.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please don't pity him. His first episode on his new show (Tucker on X), was him interviewing a lunatic who claims to have had a gay, drug-fueled orgy with Obama. Tucker literally interviewed this guy as if it were a serious claim, ignoring the fact that the guy is a convicted felon who is known for lying about crazy shit.