Cue the bots? How soon will Amazon start to fully automate their warehouses when everyone of their employees is a union member? I'm not siding with Amazon. Jeff Besoz is a ruthless businessman who can be unethical at times. They just paid $67m in fines because they got caught withholding drivers tips. How low can you get that you need to withhold driver's tips? Anyway, I hope it works out for everyone at Amazon. I just fear that this will drive up automation. Not just at Amazon, but at every big tec company with the fear that they too might have to pay union workers. That could be Walmart, Google, Facebook, etc.
They may just close that warehouse up.Risky move, interested how it plays out. In assuming they're gonna get fired
I never said automation is cheaper. not even close.
Obviously you don't work where there is much automation. Automation has a huge upfront cost, and a huge upkeep cost, and it breaks down more often than those unreliable humans. It is not cheaper, it cost more to produce a product with automation than it does with labor, you are just able to make up that cost with volume.
Yep! Most automation doesn't really replace human labor, it makes the human labor more productive and efficient. Take the example given earlier about the Jack hammer and the driveway. It didn't replace the human worker, it made that human more efficient and more productive allowing him to jack hammer 2 or 3 drive ways a day instead of 1. Also look at the USPS, they use automation to sort mail. Those sorters didn't replace humans, they made the process more efficient allowing them to handle more volume, moving the human sorters to other positions that opened up because of the added volume. AKA increased volume in one area creates need for human labor in other areas due to the volume increase.This is true.
When we implement automation for a process, it's increased volume is a typical driver.
The process also needs to be repetitious, predicable and we design for a high uptime.
It's not efficient or cost effective if the machine is idle for large amounts of time.
If it's not run for a high amount of time, there needs to be another rationale, such as the process requires precision human operators can't match, and it's a high value product.
If a process is dynamic or infrequent, it's likely better to remain manual.
Automation isn't necessarily new. Factories evolved from craft work on a workshop by creation of some level of "automation" where machines replace or multiply the work done by humans.
Cue the bots? How soon will Amazon start to fully automate their warehouses when everyone of their employees is a union member? I'm not siding with Amazon. Jeff Besoz is a ruthless businessman who can be unethical at times. They just paid $67m in fines because they got caught withholding drivers tips. How low can you get that you need to withhold driver's tips? Anyway, I hope it works out for everyone at Amazon. I just fear that this will drive up automation. Not just at Amazon, but at every big tec company with the fear that they too might have to pay union workers. That could be Walmart, Google, Facebook, etc.
lol, really? What stops them from mailing it in at home?
Not sure about this source though...
What did Neera do that was corrupt?lol, really? What stops them from mailing it in at home?
And how the hell can they "monitor for no votes" when it's a FUCKING SEALED ENVELOPE DEeeeeeeeeeerrp.
What complete morons.
lol, really? What stops them from mailing it in at home?
And how the hell can they "monitor for no votes" when it's a FUCKING SEALED ENVELOPE DEeeeeeeeeeerrp.
What complete morons.
Yeah I sort of agree, installing a mailbox certainly isn’t a bad thing.
Employers never abuse their employees! Why do we even need unions in the first place?They just don't want to believe that people don't think in their cultish-like behaviors.
They are black minorities OMG how could they not unionize!
*Works salary job with no overtime for anything over 40 hour weeks* lol
There will be lawsuits. This isn't over as as there are accusations of Amazon requiring employees to attend lectures where the company demanded they oppose the union, as well as "spreading misinformation" online and other alleged union-busting tactics, as well as intimidation etc.
The mail box being installed isn't the issue, the issue is IF amazon was monitoring and pressuring voters at that mail box. Meaning they where confronting voters BEFORE placing the ballot in the mailbox in an attempt to intimidate no voters to change there vote prior to dropping it into the box.
Yep, which is why the private mail box on the companies premises throws a red flag.Union votes are supposed to be conducted in secret without company interference.
Having mandatory meetings to talk shit about unions is exactly what they can't do when the employees are trying to unionize, as it's an anti-unionization tactic which is illegal.I've heard multiple reports that there were mandatory meetings basically just about talking shit about Unions. Also fake twitter accounts.
True as an ordinary union there is usually between a brother and a sister....right?Figured it was a failure from the start. Union in Alabama?