Countries
Read only
Do it with dues!
I feel that if Amazon employees get the Union passed I think that they might actually have a say and be happy. Happy workers make happy employees. Happy employees pack items correctly…and can use the restroom with fear of reprimand. They care about the company that is listening to them. They can’t be fired for finding in favor of the seller in a A to Z claim. They can’t have their tips stolen from them either. SO what do you sellers think?
184 replies
Seller_74maHxNez8fBP
SO what do you sellers think?
You’ve never been inside a union shop, have you?
In general and in my personal experience, unionized workers tend to be the laziest, most entitled workers that exist. If they do unionize, get ready for even worse service and support, not better. Also get ready for higher Amazon fees. Those union workers don’t come cheap.
There are many good union workers, but they are far from the majority.
Seller_qUdoi6XLICFHs
USPS, UPS, or FedEx… which ones do YOU prefer dealing with?
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
If Amazon unionizes, I will walk away.
Unions fail everywhere they are tried. Productivity drops, revenues decline, costs skyrocket, and employees become disgruntled because they are no longer permitted to work with management to resolve issues (everything must go through the Union).
I have worked with right to work shops, and union shops and I am too old to put up with the BS of another union shop. @HAWKEYE, but you go ahead and believe what you want.
Seller_XFj8akGqahG0f
The only thing that will help these employees is a Unionization of workers. In most cases Unions are not needed but for the workers of Amazon…it’s the only way to stop the abuses. Same stories told over most of the warehouses and drivers tell the story. Driver’s getting their tips stolen which a lawsuit got back to them. Employees afraid to use the restrooms due to metric concerns. When employees are carrying around urine containers you know they aren’t doing it because they want to. warehouses with poor air flow hot to the point workers faint then get reprimanded for metric issues due to fainting.
Seller_XFj8akGqahG0f
the dues will give the amazon employees a collective voice with backing from large Union.
Seller_3N7yVnTXPzLkL
My wife and I have been fortunate. We were each only forced to join a union once, and for a short period of time before we found different employment.
It was a net financial loss and the union contracts always sold out improved working conditions in return for a pay raise. The pay raise never covered losses due to strikes and union dues.
Makes for a rotten attitude about unionization.
Once upon a time, there was a real need for unions. Unions did improve working conditions for many, many workers. Much of what the fought for was enshrined in law, and the reason for having a union disappeared. When the reason disappeared, the unions did not.
Union membership drops every year (except for government employees) because, given a choice, fewer workers see any value for them.
Seller_wb4FffyknH7Lh
Unions don’t make employees happy! Good management breeds happiness. Unions do promote higher wages and better benefits - especially for lower-level employees. This drives up costs (and our fees). Unions become political and powerful and function as labor cartels to drive up wages and influence elections. Unions make it more difficult to terminate bad workers. These things hurt customers. They’ll hurt Amazon and they’ll hurt 3P sellers.
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
@HAWKEYE, I completely agree that the Amazon Warehouse conditions sound terrible and need swift improvement.
What I don’t understand is how these aren’t OSHA violations or other legal violations, that should be able to be remedied without the need for a union at this time?
And there are reports that many of the more publicized stories are not accurate. 
To be clear, I personally am neither broadly anti- nor pro-union–but I am pro-safe-and-healthy-workplaces.
Similar Discussions
