America’s Largest Unions Are Calling on the FTC to Stop Amazon

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep45jm/americas-largest-unions-are-calling-on-the-ftc-to-stop-amazon

by elsewhen • 6 years ago

50 7 6 years ago

Why wouldn’t Amazon pass through the French tax to French sellers and therefore French customers? I don’t expect Frenchmen to pay my American sales taxes. The French taxes make Amazon less competitive against smaller competitors, as intended.

andromeduck• 6 years ago

Rent-seekers rent-seeking, more at 11.

neutronman• 6 years ago

At least unions grift to build a strong blue collar middle class. That raises standard of living and creates a strong consumer economy.

ActorNightly• 6 years ago

The biggest advantage of strong unions these days is that it will create a strong push towards automation.

AnimalMuppet• 6 years ago

My perception is that, at least lately, unions grift to build a powerful (and therefore wealthier) union official hierarchy. (There was a day when they actually were for the blue collar workers, in practice as well as in theory, but that day is long gone.)

fallingfrog• 6 years ago

Economic rights are rights too. The right to bargain collectively is extremely important and should not be restricted to those holding large amounts of capital.

zxcvbn4038• 6 years ago

I don’t agree that Amazon is taking advantage of the pandemic - people were making similar claims about Amazon before any of that happened.

Wal-mart could ship me products and I would be happy to buy from them, but since March everything at Walmart has been pickup only or doesn’t ship to my zip code (NYC), so I order from Amazon.

Target is even worse off - it’s not that items are pickup only or not shipping to my zip code, they are simply unavailable.

So my message to Wal-Mart and Target is evolve or become the next US Steel.

Amazon built a logistics pipeline that fits in well with the new normal. Walmart built a bunch of super-centers that don’t.

Spoils to the victor.

America’s Largest Unions Are Calling on the FTC to Stop Amazon

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