If they do not provide or offer what you want, go and work for someone else that does. Is that not simply enough?
It essentially read as a hit piece against Amazon.
When enough people leave that are detrimental to Amazon because lack of day care, then Amazon will change their policies.
Until then, it is going to be business as usual for them. How hard is that to understand?
There's a lot of cool stuff happening at Amazon, and there's a lot of reasons to stay there. I think it's absolutely correct to try and shape the internal priorities and culture, and use leaving as a last resort.
These mothers should definitely think about it and push for more changes to the work force. The 40 hour work week officially started in 1940 - there's no reason to keep that as the standard anymore.
I hope to see a rise in people demanding more rights for the working class.
No, it's not, because it's not always that simple.
First of all, workers have the full legal right to demand better working conditions, and to even use the media to help get their way.
Secondly, there are legal issues to consider. Companies are required by law to provide reasonable accommodations to employees.
And perhaps if a company gets to the size of Amazon, day care facilities may count as a reasonable accommodation.
It codified laws that gave workers the legal right to discuss working conditions, among many other rights that it covered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act_o...
I thought reasonable accommodation was for employees with disabilities?
It is illegal to discriminate against pregnant women, or mothers, for example.
To give another example, religion is another category where companies are required to give reasonable accommodations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_...
You don't need daycare based on religion or pregnancy, do you? I'm not sure this stuff applies as you think it does, to be honest. Otherwise companies would be compelled to have daycare and... they don't do they?
And where did you get 'all workers have the right to demand' from? I'm pretty sure at-will means you can fire someone for demanding something that they don't have a legal right to.
The National Labor Relations act of 1935, of course.
Workers have the full legal right to discuss their working conditions, and to engage in organizing activities, and have had this right for almost a century.
And this is with or without a union. The NLRA specifically states "and to engage in other protected concerted activities with or without a union.".
Discussing working conditions with others is a legal right.
'Discuss' can just be met with a 'thanks no'.
I never stated otherwise.
I was responding to the idea that it is ridiculous for workers to talk about their working conditions, and that they should just get a new job or something.
The person who I had originally responded to, basically thought that you should just quit your job.
Instead, I am saying that it is within our full legal right to attempt to change working conditions. IE, write articles like this one, or discuss/organize/demand better working conditions.
Just as in Keyens criticism to laissez faire, eventually Amazon might accomodate, but the lives and careers of several individuals will be crushed in the meantime.
It also depends on how much pressure will non-unionized workers manage to exercise. And what about the other women with less premium jobs?
Pretty hard to understand, given that several companies often provide benefits to employees without an exodus of employees forcing their hand.
Lots of problems have multiple solutions. Let's not act as if your solution is the only one that works.