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Amazon workers in North Carolina vote against joining union (apnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/unions@sh.itjust.works

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[–] llamatron@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Sooner or later they're gonna run out of feet to shoot themselves in

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

That's already a serious problem for Amazon, as reported in 2022.

Is Amazon about to run out of workers? According to a leaked internal memo, the retail logistics company fears so. “If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the US network by 2024,” the research, first reported by Recode, stated.

https://archive.ph/Z9a9D

The fear - 3 years ago - was that the incredibly high turnover rate in its warehouses as they processed eager starving candidates into broken, bitter, exhausted hulks to kick out the loading bay would soon deplete the available labour pool in areas around its warehouses. They would simply have no one willing to work for them even if it meant starving.

2024 has come and gone, and aside from being a simpler pre-Trump2 time, Amazon didn't run out of staff. But a near miss is maybe just a delayed eventuality, and their labour practices haven't improved in a noticeable way if at all.

So the memo and its dire warning still hold.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Weren't they looking into roboticizing their warehouses so they would only need truck loaders/unloaders and packers? Or did that fizzle out?

If they still have that option, then they still have a lot of runway to burn out potential workers before they run out, unfortunately.

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