[ciabattabread]

I wonder that too. They been doing this for a while now around the big shopping holidays. And yet, I never hear about any major disruptions.

Maybe the union needs to change tactics?

[AnthonyMouse]

The amount of leverage workers have is proportional to how hard it is for the company to replace them. Replacing unskilled workers isn't that hard so those workers don't have much leverage.

The only real solution is to become skilled workers. Which, almost ironically, is to do the thing the company threatens to do -- find a way to automate work like this, so the people working at the warehouse are robotics technicians etc.

[immibis]

Isn't Amazon getting to the point where they're having trouble finding employee candidates they haven't previously fired?

[zzzeek]

it's likely not the case here but more powerful unions can block non-union scabs from taking the jobs of striking workers (in that this is usually part of the contract the union has with the employer). at scale, unions have a lot more power to affect things

but the point is it's not about worker skill when unions are at sufficient power levels