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thatdiabolicalfeminist:

A really common strike tactic in the pre-internet days was form a
picket line. Basically, the striking workers would hold up signs
explaining their strike and surround their place of work with a line of
people all chanting and marching. This not only got the public
interested in the strike, but it also physically blocked people from
entering the business they were striking against.

When
workers strike, businesses sometimes hire “scabs”, or workers willing to
step in and replace the strikers to make the strike meaningless. A
picket line would mean that even if the business got a full complement
of scabs, they would still take a huge hit financially during the
strike.

“Never cross a picket line” is something union and
other pro-labour parents used to teach their children, and it meant both
“never be a scab” and also “never patronize a business currently under strike.”

Amazon will likely
hire scabs during a widespread strike to pick up at least some of the
slack. But this time, workers can’t use a physical picket line to block
access, because Amazon is an online business. But it’s still important
to make sure the company isn’t able to bring in a lot of profits during
the strike – hence the calls for boycott online.

Amazon knows they need their employees. They just think they can get away with abusing them. The boycott and the strike are not to convince them to think anything, it’s to make it so unprofitable to continue that they have no choice but to concede to the strikers’ demands.

Everything is packed, alarm is set, electronics are charged, several things downloaded on netflix (but not Moana or Coco because DISNEY SUCKS), room clean, rat cage clean, boarding passes downloaded…

now I just need to sleep for. Four hours. Then off to Hawaii. Fuck. Stop this ride please too much I wanna get off

bewaretheides315:

Me @ Me: You realize that not doing the thing doesn’t actually make it go away.

Me: Yep

Me @ Me: You’ll still have to do it eventually, it’ll just be harder then because you’ll have less time.

Me: Yep

Me @ Me: You could just do it now and make life easier on yourself. There’s literally nothing stopping you.

Me: Nope

unspeakablehorror:

stringfigures:

unspeakablehorror:

July 8 Amazon Strike

Support workers starting a strike in the 2nd week of July by boycotting Amazon beginning July 8, 2018 until they give in to striker’s demands.

This strike is purposely timed to disrupt Amazon’s Prime Deals event on July 16th, so you can show solidarity by not buying from Amazon during this time.

Also, please don’t think you’re helping the workers by buying more stuff during this time to increase workload–you’re only giving Bezos more cash if you buy off Amazon, and it’s not like HE has to personally process your packages for you.

It sends an even bigger message if you can cancel your Amazon Prime as well.

This is a European strike, so you can help even more if you live in Europe, but it will send a powerful message if people in other countries also boycott Amazon during this time, to say that you will not ignore the mistreatment of workers outside your country.

Here is a page giving information on the strike:

https://makeamazonpay.org/en/2018/05/17/call-to-all-amazon-workers-in-europe-in-july-a-european-strike/

Please feel free to either reblog or repost this information.

i don’t know if the strike is specific to just the main Amazon hub, but Amazon also owns Whole Foods (and IMDB, Twitch, Audible, Goodreads
). i would say boycott anything under the Amazon name

This is a good addition. If you can boycott any of these Amazon subsidiaries as well, please do so.