I am not as hopeful as you but that would definitely be something
Unions do seem to be making a big comeback
Unions do seem to be making a big comeback
Amazon can give more shifts to non striking workers, train new employees in a matter of hours, leverage labour hire companies, bus in workers from other facilities, lean on FBM and other 3PL providers, increase automation. They also have a massive network of fulfilment centers and can easily just ship in fulfilled orders from elsewhere using non union trucking and last mile.
Amazon also has deep pockets and a long time horizon, so worst case they'll just allow the facility to be shut down by strikes and let their customers know it'll take another day to deliver their order from elsewhere.
Warehousing is massive industry and even at their size Amazon is less than 10% of it.
The most realistic solution is for workers to spend any spare time they have learning new skills to move into better industries. Trying to make pick pack roles not suck is not realistic.
Like, just the game-theoretic analysis here suggests municipalities will want nothing to do with this.
On a general note ... life in general seems cyclical.