A black man, Christian Smalls, is taking down Amazon

[Slimkid07]

Good shyt

 

[hatealot]

Dumb nikkas. This nikka corny.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

AOC just like other politicians...shocking

 

[6CertsAndAMovie]

unbelievable

 

[TM101]

enlightened centrism.

 

[Paper Boi]

this is an early interview of how it all began:



a 2 year fight where they really tried to off the breh and he stood tall through it all.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

I just saw this

fukk those hired guns that tired to smear this breh.

he got a win today but him and the crew are celebrating NBA Finals style

Just hope the breh has his head on a swivel. No damn way Amazon will just lie down and let him openly stunt on them like that.

 

[Kings County]

im confused never been in a union

why would the workers vote against their interests? why is this the first one in the united states? why did this take so long ?

 

[Paper Boi]

im confused never been in a union

why would the workers vote against their interests? why is this the first one in the united states? why did this take so long ?

it's a case by case basis. like for example where he works he was trying to unionize based of the working conditions in the warehouse at the start of the pandemic and the lack of a give a fukk about safety for employees as long as the packages get there on time.

so i'm not sure what lies amazon spun there, their employees probably have some kind of benefits, limited benefits, but still better than your average job benefits, they probably said "oh well if you unionize these benefits will have to be agreed upon and they might become too expensive and go away"

in california, there was a big deal with uber drivers/other app drivers where they tried to unionize (actually wasn't even unionize it was become recognized as employees, rather than independent contractors which comes with a certain amount of requirements on the employers) and it lost because they pretty much told them "oh your job might become too expensive to exist and the company might leave"

it's all scare tactics at the end of the day and they can't come out right and say it because it's illegal to fire someone for trying to unionize in most states (could be all, i'm no expert), that's why his case could have just got him paid, but instead... he actually got them a union.

corporations spend a lot of money to convince people unions are bad for them though, which should tell you if they're spending this much money, they union is good for you and bad for them long term. they got the money to think long term, a lot of people thinking about right now, next week though, that's how we are paid, that's how they keep you on their tit for more milk. as long as they have us living check to check and one financial crisis to another, they got somebody scared of their threats. the system has pretty much become more and more design friendly to smash out unions over the years as wages have stagnated and people are desperate.

 

[detroitwalt]

im confused never been in a union

why would the workers vote against their interests? why is this the first one in the united states? why did this take so long ?

It’s the 1st at an Amazon plant, breh just misspoke. Corporations have done a good job at convincing workers that unions are bad for them. You’ll hear people bad mouth unions but have never worked a union job. Their biggest anti-union talking point will be having to strike but that’s actually pretty rare.

I work on aircraft and my job was giving out .25 cent raises and shyt. We went union and the raises jumped. Our wages immediately jumped up almost $4 an hour and we began to get yearly increases as opposed to every couple of years as before. Vacation time went up and no jobs were lost. People could no longer get fired for petty reasons because we now had someone on our side to fight for us.

 

[BlackJesus]

Amazon getting taken down by a some swagged out dude that looks like any random New York rapper

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

it helps to create a culture amongst underpaid/marginalized workers to organize and engage in collective bargaining. It puts corporations on notice to create better working conditions. it's a good thing if it continues to grow.

The Threat Of A Good Example

raised labor standards and pay will put the battery in the back of many other workers to unionize their workplace. businesses will have to compete for workers which will benefit workers.

a very similar effect happened with the fight for $15.

If yall didnt know, this is a giant win for labor and will lead to some huge dustups with the big companies going forward. If Amazon can get unionized, anyone can. All it takes is the first domino. Shout out to this brotha.

the Barista unionization at Starbucks has real legs. Their signs are everywhere in seattle and im certain they’ll have a battery in their back after this

 

[Afro]

Dumb nikkas. This nikka corny.

Speak your mind breh

AOC just like other politicians...shocking

It kinda is, only because the "Squad" has been portrayed as "for the people" since their inception.



Anyone who questioned that narrative was told you were a misogynist or "just give them time, you'll see."


Most notable thing I've heard is that Omar chick leaving her Arab husband to get a white one

From AOC letting Pelosi make her cry to this, just shows how weak she truly is

 

[Yapdatfool]

Alabama better get they shyt together and vote for unionization.

Salute to the brother for standing up for himself AND his fellow people as a result.

 

[detroitwalt]

Alabama better get they shyt together and vote for unionization.

Salute to the brother for standing up for himself AND his fellow people as a result.

It was crazy how lopsided that vote was against unionization. I think read that there will be another vote because Amazon did some shady shyt leading up to the vote.