Target Workers Unionize for Better Pay, Get Replaced By Robots

[ill]

Day After Employees Vote to Unionize, Target Announces Fleet of Robot Workers

Just a day after pharmacy workers from a Brooklyn Target store formed a union, the company announced plans to replace employees with robot workers in the near future.

Last week it was reported that the pharmacists had submitted their initial “microunion” filing with the National Labor Relations Board after an initial ballot vote was passed 7 -2. The filing was noteworthy as the workers become the first union at any Target store since the retailer opened in 1902.

Yet, less than a week later, in a seemingly unrelated press release, Casey Carl, the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Target announced the company’s plan to develop automation systems and replace workers with robots in their retail locations as part of a new program with Techstars, an industry leader with a reputation for accelerating startups

 

[Liu Kang]

They would have done it anyway. They just used the unionization excuse to do so in a less unacceptable fashion.

 

[Tate]

Speed up your own demise brehs

 

[DEAD7]

 

[BaggerofTea]

Speed up your own demise brehs

Or invest/buy stock in the companies that produce the chips and mechanics behind the automation

 

[88m3]

Capitalism wasn't built to lose.

 

[Tate]

Capitalism wasn't built to lose.

 

[tmonster]

They would have done it anyway. They just used the unionization excuse to do so in a less unacceptable fashion.

oh you mean they would not have kept paying wages with the option not to do so available to them, even though the bottom line is their accepted, and often lauded on the coli, motto?
weird

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Speed up your own demise brehs

The AUDACITY of this post and this user

 

[radio rahiem]

Well now that they're unionized, they can push back against this.
This is exactly what these large corporations are scared of.

 

[the cac mamba]

i hate self checkouts i never fukkin use those

 

[DEAD7]

i hate self checkouts i never fukkin use those

I prefer self checkout

 

[ORDER_66]

And when someone breaks the machines to get to the medicine and no one can stop him or call the cops, then what... you know it's gonna happen... Also someone gotta fix those machines, they gonna fukk up someone's order and you have a potential lawsuit on your hands..

 

[ill]

And when someone breaks the machines to get to the medicine and no one can stop him or call the cops, then what... you know it's gonna happen... Also someone gotta fix those machines, they gonna fukk up someone's order and you have a potential lawsuit on your hands..

The rate of failure/wrongful fills on prescription would be much lower with a computer than a human.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

The rate of failure/wrongful fills on prescription would be much lower with a computer than a human.

The only way to get rid of human error is to completely get rid of humans.