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?
Maybe the union needs to change tactics?
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.
This apparently happened somewhere in a rural area with a small local population. It's obviously not going to happen at a warehouse in, say, New Jersey.
And to the extent that it actually happens somewhere it's not like their response would be hard to predict. Calculate how much they would have to increase local wages to expand the candidate pool enough, see if this is less than it costs to move the warehouse somewhere with a larger pool of workers, if not then move the warehouse.
Notice that Amazon warehouse workers get paid more than minimum wage. This is why. Unskilled workers don't have zero leverage, they just don't have much.
"Want a job? Can pass a background check? No interview. Apply today, start tomorrow."
but the point is it's not about worker skill when unions are at sufficient power levels
This is also why corporate monopolies are a fiasco and need to be prevented as well.
The general rule is "prevent any one group from consolidating too much power". If someone's solution is "let our group consolidate a huge amount of power" they're admitting they're the villains.