>>pseudo+(OP)
Amazon has already increased both normal and overtime pay for these workers, and instituted lots of reasonable changes in their stores and fulfillment centers. See https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-actions-to...

These strikes just seems opportunist. For those saying “workers should get PPEs” - how? There’s a shortage and medical workers are a higher priority since they’re more likely to be infected. And clearly, online shopping is popular these days and important to keep operating while there are shelter in place orders. Grocery stores are also important to keep operating.

These workers are free to forego their jobs and go home. Amazon should just replace them and move on. There will be many others who are willing to work.

>>pseudo+(OP)
Good for them. I guess I won't hold my breath for AWS SREs to go on strike in solidarity, but if there were ever a time it would be now.

Edit: No strike threat, but there's a petition here https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/amazon-must-protect-work...

Better than nothing!

>>jfenge+Xk
I've read both The Jungle and Nickel and Dimed, but not Atlas Shrugged. To this day I have never hired anyone to clean my house or fetch and carry for me, it's a direct influence of that book. One day when I'm old and infirm, maybe. On my last 20-ish visits to Wholefoods, I saw more and more gig shoppers. In the beginning I didn't think much of it, but as the number of gig shoppers approach regular shoppers, I have become convinced that we are living in Brave New World, there's a whole class of people who we will never come in contact with, other than through these arms-length service exchange. I hazard to think that this stratification of tasks will shape us, shape me in how I think of my place in the world. And this is the stuff I do see, I hate to think what I'm blind to.

Is our world now more like 1984 or Brave New World?

https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/brave-new-world-v...

Edited: I've just re-watched that Intelligence Squared debate and, my God, it is bang on and more relevant now than ever!