• moody@lemmings.world
    10·
    2 hours ago

    Yup, 8 million people in the province, mostly concentrated in two dense areas, and yet it makes perfect financial sense to shut down operations there and pass the work off to a third party. Definitely nothing to do with the union at all. It’s not like Amazon has been fighting unionization efforts anywhere else, right?

  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 hours ago

    Oh no not corporations threatening to leave the market if they can’t operate the way they want and thinking we will mourn their departure 😢😢

    This is good too because it will give a chance to smaller businesses to compete. The bad side of this is all the people working for Amazon at this center will lose their jobs sadly.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Yep, kind of a rock and a hard place, but I think it’s better for society that we have functional small businesses that aren’t immediately undercut by unsustainable business practices and corporate welfare (things like governments bidding on Amazon’s HQ location).

      I do feel bad for those employees who unionized and now are getting fired. Amazon should have unionized employees with the number of employees they have.

  • Arkouda@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Amazon is only a problem because Canadians make it one. You don’t have to use any of their services, and if you agree that what they are doing is wrong you need to immediately stop using all of their services.

    Every use, regardless of how you personally justify it, is an action in support of their practices. Every time you use their services, you support union busting. You support wage-slave labour practices. You support the production of waste by buying cheap and convenient products you don’t need. You are literally holding them up and allowing them to do what they do.

    Don’t be a part of the problem. If everyone said “We won’t do business with you because X” that business stops doing “X” because “Y” is the only way to make money now.

    • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 hour ago

      This is a great ideology, but there aren’t many better alternatives for a lot of people. Most of the alternatives (e.g. Walmart) are just as complicit.

      Avoid Amazon when you can, but they have such a critical mass that the only way to defeat them is through government regulation.

      • Arkouda@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Every use, regardless of how you personally justify it, is an action in support of their practices. Every time you use their services, you support union busting. You support wage-slave labour practices. You support the production of waste by buying cheap and convenient products you don’t need. You are literally holding them up and allowing them to do what they do.

        Amazon is not an essential service. One does not need an alternative to a non essential service. One simply doesn’t care about the harm done enough to put in any effort to avoid these companies.

        This argument is tiring, and in support of these business’ by pretending like they are unavoidable. They aren’t.

      • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Better alternatives for what? I can’t think of anything I’ve ever bought from Amazon out of necessity, only laziness. And nowadays, pretty much everything that cannot be bought at a brick and mortar store, can be bought directly from the manufacturers website.