BREAKING NEWS: Amazon workers around the world on strike [2:45 | Nov 24 2023 | Progressive International]

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Good. People can wait a few days to get their packages if it means better working conditions.
- Also just not buy things from Amazon until the strike is over. Real stores exist!
  (I say this as a recluse who buys almost everything online)
  
  Most of the time sellers on Amazon have their own online storefront
  
  Yeah. Your item on Amazon often will say "order fulfilled by Company Y." You can look that company up to see if you can order directly from them, that way they still get the sale without Bezos taking his cut.
  
  I did this a few times. Ordered directly from the company instead of through Amazon. But then an expensive order didn't show up. Amazon would have replaced it. But others companies' policies are not so customer friendly. I was in the middle of contesting the charge 3 weeks later when a neighbor showed up at my front door with the package. Said he found it while clearing brush along our common road.
  Now I only buy through Amazon. If the neighbor had not been honest, I could have been out $280. And yes, we do have a problem with overworked USPS drivers leaving packages at the bottom of the road.
  
  Yeah that return policy is fucking hard to beat
  
  Same, but I've got away without buying from Amazon for 5+ years now, so I'm pretty sure anyone can do it.
  A couple of times a package I ordered from some random website would come in an amazon box, just because they incidentally use the service, but that was it.
  
  They got me with the free prime delivery. I'll get, like, a single bottle of Tylenol delivered. My husband likes the card benefits, so they got him there. Plus, sometimes we watch shows and movies if Netflix or Youtube doesn't have them (we only pirate if what we want can't be found elsewhere, since we are fortnate enough to be able to pay for the media we consume)
  I hate to say it, but... it's a great service
  But even I can walk away, and stand in solidarity with workers. They deserve better, and Amazon can afford to give it to them
  
  We recycle cartons at work to send stuff to our customers.
  Saves a bit of money and is better for the environment.
  
  I will openly admit I should be much better about not ordering so much stuff online.
- Nothing will come out of that strike. It's just 1 day and then back to being a wage slave. If anything, it will prove to Amazon that they, Amazon, are pulling the levers. In order for a strike to be effective, it has to last until changes are agreed upon which is impossible without a strong union.

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